Illinois Central Railroad Trains
4-8-2 steam locomotive No. 2604. Illinois Central 2604, seen at Centralia, Ill., in mid-1958, was one of 20 freight 4-8-2s built from scratch by the road's Paducah Shops during 1942-43. They were IC's last new steam engines. The Illinois Central Railroad is Classic Trains editors' Railroad of the Month for July 2021.
Illinois Central Railroad by John F. Bjorklund Center for Railroad Photography & Art
collection. he Illinois Central system encompassed railroad lines through 14 states in the central section of the United States, known as Mid-America. The IC was chartered in 1851, and traces its roots back to 1828 with the formation of the West Feliciana Railroad, which later became part of the IC. The IC was the first land-grant railroad, the.
Illinois Central Railroad Map, Logo, History, Timetables
The Illinois Central Railroad (IC), sometimes called the "Main Line of Mid-America," had primary routes connecting Chicago, Illinois with New Orleans, Louisiana and Birmingham, Alabama. A line also connected Chicago with Sioux City, Iowa (1870). There was a significant branch to Omaha, Nebraska (1899) west of Fort Dodge, Iowa and another branch.
The Illinois Central Railroad
The Illinois Central was chartered as one of the first land-grant railroads in the United States. The original route ran from Galena to Cairo. The Chicago Branch of the Illinois Central Railroad was completed from Chicago to Centralia in 1853, passing through Monee, Will and Peotone townships, with stations located in the Will County.
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Illinois Central Gulf. Illinois Central and parallel Gulf, Mobile & Ohio merged on August 10, 1972, to create the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad, a wholly owned subsidiary of Illinois Central Industries. GM&O was a likely merger partner for Illinois Central, as it was a north-south railroad through much the same area as IC.
Illinois Central Railroad by John F. Bjorklund Center for Railroad Photography & Art
Illinois Central Railroad (Corporate History) The first U.S. railroad promoted by a large (2.6 million acre) federal land grant, the Illinois Central cost about $25 million to build; as many as 10,000 workers at a time were engaged in building the railroad between 1851 and 1856. British and Dutch investors provided much of the capital required.
Illinois Central Railroad "Main Line of MidAmerica"
Map Map of Illinois Central R.R. Map of Illinois Central R.R. U.S. central states from Great Lakes to Gulf of Mexico, showing relief by hachures, drainage, cities and towns, roads and railroads. Principal north-south line, chartered in 1850 and incorporated in 1851. 706 miles opened for traffic in 1856. First railroad to receive lands granted.
Illinois Central Railroad Map, Logo, History, Timetables
History of the Illinois Central Railroad Company and representative employes; a history of the growth and development of one of the leading arteries of transportation in the United States, from inception to its present mammoth proportions, together with the biographies of many of the men who have been and are identified with the varied interests of the Illinois Central Railroad
Illinois Central Railroad
November 8, 2014 Andrew. Illinois Central Railroad. The wages were $1.25 a day to build the railroad. It was completed September 27, 1856, taking five years to construct. 705 mile railroad. Connected the northern, southern and central parts of the State. The city of Centralia was named after the Illinois Central Railroad.
Illinois Central Railroad Trains
The Illinois Central Railroad ( reporting mark IC ), sometimes called the Main Line of Mid-America, was a railroad in the Central United States, with its primary routes connecting Chicago, Illinois, with New Orleans, Louisiana, and Mobile, Alabama, and thus, the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. A line also connected Chicago west to Sioux City.
Illinois Central Railroad
In the 1830s, Illinois began a program of internal improvements to open its prairie to agriculture and settlement. It was a failure, but in 1851 the state chartered the Illinois Central Railroad (IC) and selected a consortium of Eastern capitalists to construct and own the railroad.Federal land grants of nearly 2,600,000 acres provided the economic incentive; the initial investment of $27.
Illinois Central Railroad by John F. Bjorklund Center for Railroad Photography & Art
Illinois Terminal crossing is to be rebuilt. H&R file photo 6-15-1955 This new $32,300 overpass on Johnson Street across the Illinois Central Railroad tracks in Vandalia was opened Monday. The.
Illinois Central Railroad by John F. Bjorklund Center for Railroad Photography & Art
Illinois Central STEAM ROSTER - I put together this steam roster with photos of some of the locomotives. Gene Connelly's Illinois Central Steam Roster . Gene Connelly has compiled the largest and probably the best steam locomotive database. This Microsoft XL spread sheet was extracted from his data base by Allen Stanley of Railroad Data Exchange.
Illinois Central Railroad by John F. Bjorklund Center for Railroad Photography & Art
Welcome to the Illinois Central Railroad Heritage Association! Our group, founded in 2007 is an Incorporated, non-affiliated organization that is dedicated to preserving and disseminating the historical record of the Illinois Central Railroad -- The Main Line of Mid-America-- its predecessors and successors including the Chicago, Central and Pacific, Illinois Central Gulf, Paducah & Louisville.
Illinois Central Railroad by John F. Bjorklund Center for Railroad Photography & Art
The Illinois Central Railroad On-Line. An unofficial and unaffiliated web source of information on routes, equipment, schedules, and news of the Illinois Central Railroad and its subsidiaries including the Chicago Central & Pacific Railroad (CCP) and Cedar River Railroad (CEDR) System Map.
Illinois Central Railroad by John F. Bjorklund Center for Railroad Photography & Art
Illinois Central Railroad (IC), former U.S. railroad founded in 1851 that expanded service from Illinois to much of the Midwest before merging with the Canadian National Railway Company (CN) in 1999. With its charter in 1851, the Illinois Central Railroad was the first of many railroads to receive