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The Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway (reporting mark EJE) was a Class II railroad, making a roughly circular path between Waukegan, Illinois and Gary, Indiana.The railroad served as a link between Class I railroads traveling to and from Chicago, although it operated almost entirely within the city's suburbs, only entering Chicago where it served the U.S. Steel South Works on the shores of ...
With entrepreneur Jack Haley as president and CEO, the Chicago Central & Pacific Railroad was formed by a spin-off from the by-then-named Illinois Central Gulf. [5] Distinct operations began on December 24, 1985. [6] The IC repurchased the railroad in 1996 and operated it as a subsidiary until the IC itself was purchased by CN three years later.
1⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gauge. The Grand Trunk Western Railroad Company ( reporting mark GTW) was an American subsidiary of the Grand Trunk Railway, later of the Canadian National Railway ( reporting mark CN) operating in Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. Since a corporate restructuring in 1971, the railroad has been under CN's ...
The Barr Subdivision is a railroad line owned and operated by CSX Transportation in the U.S. states of Indiana and Illinois. The line runs from Willow Creek (a neighborhood in Portage, Indiana ), west to just west of Blue Island, Illinois, [2] along a former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) line. At its east end, it junctions with the Porter ...
North Central Service. A North Central Service train at O'Hare Transfer in 2010. The North Central Service ( NCS) is a Metra commuter rail line running from Union Station in downtown Chicago through northwestern and far northern suburbs to Antioch, Illinois. In December 2022, the public timetable shows seven weekday departures from Chicago.
Thus they reached Michigan City, Indiana, by 1850 and finished the line to Kensington, Illinois, (now a south Chicago neighborhood) in 1852, using Illinois Central trackage rights to downtown Chicago. The completed railroad was 270 miles (430 km) in length. In the same year the first train ran from Detroit to Chicago.
The Egyptian Zipper, 1937. The management of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois and the Chicago and Indiana Coal Railway ("the Coal Road" or C&IC) became intertwined and eventually a connection was built between the two railroads between Goodland, Indiana (on the C&IC) and Momence (on the C&EI). By 1894 the Eastern had merged the C&IC.
June 25, 1988: “Chicago’s official high temperature was a record (for June 25) 103 degrees at O’Hare International Airport at 3 p.m., and it was 2 degrees higher at Lake Michigan. By ...