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Michigan Central Railroad—Detroit & St. Joseph 1832, Boston capital 1846, Chicago 1852, Canada Southern, Detroit River Tunnel, Michigan Central Station. Map, 1893 Official Guid...
Detroit & Mackinac Railway, the Turtle Line. Bay City to Cheboygan along Lake Huron. Incorporated December 29, 1894. Lake State Railway leased the operation in 1992 and bought...
Chicago South Shore & South Bend, the South Shore Line, from the 1901 Air Line through Samuel Insull's 1925 rebuild, the orange cars, the 800s, and the railroad NICTD and Anaco...
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway—Erie & Kalamazoo 1833, Michigan Southern to Chicago 1852, LS&MS April 6 1869, Vanderbilt, Ashtabula 1876, NYC merger Dec. 22 1914...
Algoma Central Railway, Sault Ste. Marie to Hearst. Wisconsin Central on February 1, 1995. Fifty-nine steam locomotives and forty-two diesels.
The Omaha Road, reporting mark CMO. Formed May 26, 1880. North Western management on December 16, 1882. Leased January 1, 1957. Class K-1 No. 183 and the sublettered diesels.
Davenport, Rock Island and North Western Railway, the DRI Line. Clinton to East Moline across the Crescent Bridge. Burlington and Milwaukee. Merged into the Soo Line on June 29, 19...
B&O Cincinnatian—Mount Clare five-car streamliner, January 19, 1947, trains 75 and 76. P-7d Pacifics 5301–5304. Detroit–Cincinnati from June 25, 1950, trains 53 and 54. Last ru...
Maine Central—Androscoggin & Kennebec and Penobscot & Kennebec, October 28 1862. Pine Tree Route. Mountain Division, Portland–Bangor–Vanceboro. Last steam June 13 1954. Gui...
Chicago and Western Indiana, chartered June 5, 1879. Five equal owners, Dearborn Station, and two main lines. Dolton suburban mile 16.6. Fifteen diesels. Railroad service ended in...
Detroit & Toledo Shore Line—Pleasant Bay 1898, named 1899, Detroit–Toledo freight bridge, GTW and Clover Leaf/NKP/N&W. Merged into Grand Trunk Western June 26, 1981.
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway—Bee Line 1868, Ingalls’s first Big Four 1880, CCC&StL June 30, 1889, NYC lease Feb. 1, 1930. 1910 and 1930 maps, what sti...
Michigan railroad museums—Pere Marquette 1225 at Owosso, Durand Union Station, The Henry Ford, and the Mount Clemens depot. Confirm hours on each site.
Detroit, Toledo & Ironton, reporting mark DTI, from Detroit to Ironton, Ohio. Railway organized May 2, 1905. Railroad articles filed February 21, 1914. Henry Ford, 1920 to 1929...
The Chicago & Eastern Illinois ran from Chicago to Evansville, St. Louis, and Thebes. First company of the name, August 28, 1877. The remainder merged into the Missouri Pacific...
LaSalle Street Station—Rock Island October 10, 1852. Frost & Granger July 1, 1903. 20th Century Limited, Rockets, Golden State. Headhouse razed 1981. Metra Rock Island District...
Tennessee Central Railway, Harriman to Hopkinsville. Reorganized January 26, 1922. Last day August 31, 1968. Thirty-one diesels and the railroad's steam roster.
U.S. railroads 1850–1860—9,021 to ~30,600 miles, Illinois Central land grant, NYC 1853, Erie to Dunkirk, PRR/B&O to the Ohio, Minot’s 1851 train order, Rock Island bridge. Fact...
Detroit, Toledo and Ironton steam locomotives built after 1900. Drury's class grid. The quantity column prints 141. Counted once, the frames are 137. Last steam was Mikado 805 on D...
Chicago & Illinois Midland steam locomotives built since 1900. Drury's class grid, 57 engines. Twenty-six 2-10-2s, including nine from the Wabash and nine from the Atlantic Coa...
Iowa, Chicago & Eastern Railroad Corporation, reporting mark ICE. About 1,125 miles and about 275 miles of trackage rights from the I&M Rail Link. Operations at 12:01 a.m....
U.S. railroads 1960–1970—207,334 to 196,479 miles. Erie Lackawanna 1960, C&O–B&O 1963, N&W–Nickel Plate 1964, SCL 1967, Penn Central Feb. 1 1968.
Milwaukee Road's Vendome Loop—horseshoe between Vendome and Cedric, Montana, on the 2% east slope of Pipestone Pass. ICC valuation, McIntosh Bros., 1908 track. Not the tunnel.
The Chicago & Illinois Midland moved Illinois coal for Commonwealth Edison, Taylorville and Springfield to Pekin, with Peoria over the Peoria & Pekin Union. The 1906 railwa...
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