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March 3, 1871 - United States Congress grants a charter to the Texas Pacific Railroad Company; 1871 - Texas legislature charters the company and grant permission to purchase the Southern Trans-Continental Railway Company and the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. Note: This is a different Southern Pacific Railroad company from the one referred ...
PPU 2000 at Peoria, IL. The Tazewell & Peoria Railroad (T&P) (reporting mark TZPR) (November 1, 2004—present) is a short-line railroad, running entirely in Peoria County and Tazewell County, Illinois, and formed by Genesee & Wyoming Inc. to lease the assets of the century-old Peoria and Pekin Union Railway (P&PU), which is owned by Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern and Canadian National.
Northern Pacific Railroad: NP: 1890 1893 N/A Leased the Wisconsin Central Company: Northern and Southern Illinois Railroad: CB&Q: 1904 1908 Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad: Ogle and Carroll County Railroad: CB&Q: 1857 1871 Chicago and Iowa Railroad: Oglesby and Granville Railway: MILW: 1905 1913 Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway
Central Illinois Railroad: CIRY Crab Orchard and Egyptian Railway: COER Decatur Junction Railway: DT Eastern Illinois Railroad: EIRC Fisher Farmers Grain & Coal Railroad: FFGC Foster Townsend Rail Logistics: FTRL Illinois Railway: IR Keokuk Junction Railway: KJRY Peoria & Western Railway PWRY Tazewell & Peoria Railroad: TZPR Toledo, Peoria ...
Rock Island locomotive #627, circa 1910 Fractional Share of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company, issued June 30, 1898 Its predecessor, the Rock Island and La Salle Railroad Company, was incorporated in Illinois on February 27, 1847, and an amended charter was approved on February 7, 1851, as the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad.
Calumet River Railway (Illinois) Canadian Pacific Railway; Central Illinois Public Service Company; Chesapeake and Ohio Railway; Chicago and Alton Railroad; Chicago and Alton Railway; Chicago, Alton and St. Louis Railroad; Chicago and Tomah Railroad; Chicago and Atlantic Railway; Chicago and Atlantic Extension Railway; Chicago and Aurora Railroad
The project is being led by the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) funded with $275 million through the Rebuild Illinois capital plan. The route is expected to begin by late 2027, reinstating rail service to Rockford for the first time in over 40 years after the discontinuation of Amtrak's Black Hawk in 1981. [2]
The Chicago Rail Link's trackage stretches between Kensington, Irondale, Mokena, and Chicago, Illinois.The Chicago Rail Link has access to the BNSF Railway, the Canadian National Railway, the Canadian Pacific Railway, the CSX Transportation network, the Kansas City Southern Railway, the Norfolk Southern Railway, and the Union Pacific Railroad through the Belt Railway of Chicago. [1]