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A builder's plate is usually a metal plate that is attached to railway locomotives and rolling stock, bogies, construction equipment, trucks, automobiles, ...
Chicago Heights Plant No. 2. 1964 plant at 26th and State Street. This was headquarters at the sale to Trinity. The site includes an office, assembly building, paint shop, fabricating building, and jig/fixtures facility, as well as outdoor cranes. The plant was served by Union Pacific and Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway.
The company owned about 130 miles of single-track, standard-gage railroad, all in Illinois, of which 45 miles was acquired from The Kankakee and Southwestern Railroad Company, 42 miles from the Kankakee & Western Railroad Company, 14 miles from the Clinton, Bloomington & North Eastern Railway Company, and 20 miles by construction done by or for ...
A World War II print advertisement for Baldwin (Whitcomb) "Little Giant" switcher locomotives.. The Geo D. Whitcomb Company was founded by George Dexter Whitcomb (1834–1914), of Chicago, Illinois, who started a modest machine shop in 1878, and began the manufacture of coal mining machinery, laying the foundation for the concern that became known as The Whitcomb Locomotive Company.
The railroad of Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad Company, herein called the carrier, is a standard-gage, steam railroad, located in Illinois and Indiana. Its lines appear on the map like an inverted “Y” with the base of the letter at Dolton, Ill., near Chicago, to which the carrier has access through trackage rights.
The Illinois Central Railroad in 1851 was the first railroad to receive a federal land grant. The grant was part of the Land Grant Act of 1850, which provided 3.75 million acres of land to support railroad projects. The Illinois Central received nearly 2.6 million acres of land in Illinois. [3]
Want a custom Illinois license plate? Choose wisely. Here are the custom plates denied by the Secretary of State's office in 2022.
The property of The Chicago and Illinois River Railroad Company was operated by The Chicago and Alton Railroad Company (of 1861) as lessee, under lease agreement, from date of completion, July 1, 1875, to April 15, 1879, and for account of the receivers, from the latter date to date of sale.