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5 ft ( 1,524 mm) Length. 3,130.21 mi (5,037.58 km) The Illinois Central Railroad ( reporting mark IC ), sometimes called the Main Line of Mid-America, was a railroad in the Central United States. Its primary routes connected Chicago, Illinois, with New Orleans, Louisiana, and Mobile, Alabama, and thus, the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico.
The list of Underground Railroad sites includes abolitionist locations of sanctuary, support, and transport for former slaves in 19th century North America before and during the American Civil War. It also includes sites closely associated with people who worked to achieve personal freedom for all Americans in the movement to end slavery in the ...
The original Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad ( CRI&P RW, sometimes called Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway) [1] ( reporting marks CRIP, RI, ROCK) was an American Class I railroad. It was also known as the Rock Island Line, or, in its final years, The Rock . At the end of 1970, it operated 7,183 miles of road on 10,669 miles of ...
1⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm) Length. 2,524 miles (4,062 kilometres) The Wabash Railroad ( reporting mark WAB) was a Class I railroad that operated in the mid-central United States. It served a large area, including track in the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, and Missouri and the province of Ontario.
Seminole (train) Shawnee (train) Southwestern Limited (IC train) Categories: Illinois Central Railroad. Named passenger trains of the United States. Hidden category: Commons category link is on Wikidata.
The Chicago and North Western ( reporting mark CNW) was a Class I railroad in the Midwestern United States. It was also known as the "North Western". The railroad operated more than 5,000 miles (8,000 km) of track at the turn of the 20th century, and over 12,000 miles (19,000 km) of track in seven states before retrenchment in the late 1970s.
The Illinois Terminal Railroad Company ( reporting mark ITC ), known as the Illinois Traction System until 1937, was a heavy duty interurban electric railroad with extensive passenger and freight business in central and southern Illinois from 1896 to 1956. When Depression era Illinois Traction was in financial distress and had to reorganize ...