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Pages in category "Narrow gauge railroads in Illinois" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. ... Toledo, St. Louis and Kansas City Railroad
St. Louis and Illinois Bridge Company: 1865 1868 Illinois and St. Louis Bridge Company: St. Louis, Indianapolis and Eastern Railroad: IC: 1889 1899 Illinois and Eastern Railroad: St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway: MP: 1901 1917 Missouri Pacific Railroad in Illinois: St. Louis, Jacksonville and Chicago Railroad: GM&O: 1862 1899 ...
The Oahu Railway and Land Company was the largest narrow-gauge class-one common-carrier railway in the US (at the time of its dissolution in 1947), and the only US narrow-gauge railroad to use signals. The OR&L used Automatic Block Signals, or ABS on their double track mainline between Honolulu and Waipahu, a total of 12.9 miles (20.8 km), and ...
Eventually the St. Charles Air Line, an unincorporated jointly owned line, was formed as a reorganization [clarification needed] of the project. It only built from the Illinois Central Railroad (also used by the Michigan Central Railroad ) on Lake Michigan , near 14th Street, west along the original alignment to Western Avenue .
The 1,341 miles of road constructed by the remaining 34 predecessors were acquired by purchase from 17 corporations; 218 miles of road, acquired from 2 corporations, were constructed by corporations not treated as predecessors of the Illinois Central. The St. Louis, Peoria and Northern Railway Company, from which 87 miles of road were acquired ...
This is a list of 3 ft (914 mm) narrow-gauge railways in the United States. Narrow-gauge railroads of various sizes existed across the US, especially during the late 1800s, with the most popular gauge being 3 ft gauge. [1] [2] Some of the more famous 3 ft gauge railroad networks in the US were based in California, Colorado, and Hawaii. These ...
The narrow-gauge (30 inches [2]) St. Kitts Scenic Railway circles the island and offers passenger service from its headquarters near the airport, although the service is geared more for tourists than as day-to-day transportation for residents. Built between 1912 and 1926 to haul sugar cane from farms to the sugar factory in Basseterre, since ...
The Chicago Tunnel Company was the builder and operator of a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow-gauge railway freight tunnel network under downtown Chicago, Illinois.This was regulated by the Interstate Commerce Commission as an interurban even though it operated entirely under central Chicago, did not carry passengers, and was entirely underground. [1]