The Chicago and Northwest Indiana Region of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Title | The Chicago and Northwest Indiana Region of the Pennsylvania Railroad PDF eBook |
Author | Mark P. Schiesser |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Railroads |
ISBN |
The Pennsylvania Railroad in Indiana
Title | The Pennsylvania Railroad in Indiana PDF eBook |
Author | William J. Watt |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780253337085 |
Photographs, advertising and promotional materials, and detailed maps resurrect its speedy passenger trains and heavy-tonnage freights, and show how it earned its slogan: "The Standard Railroad of the World.""--BOOK JACKET.
The Pennsylvania Railroad at Bay
Title | The Pennsylvania Railroad at Bay PDF eBook |
Author | Richard T. Wallis |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2001-03-22 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780253338723 |
95 t / £30.50ContentsIntroductionPreludeExecutiveOwnerThe StrikeSystem BuilderIvesThe CrashCaretakerPostlude
Corporate History of the Pittsburgh Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway Company
Title | Corporate History of the Pittsburgh Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway Company PDF eBook |
Author | Pennsylvania Railroad |
Publisher | |
Pages | 586 |
Release | 1875 |
Genre | Railroads |
ISBN |
Northwestern Pennsylvania Railroads
Title | Northwestern Pennsylvania Railroads PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth C. Springirth |
Publisher | Arcadia Library Editions |
Pages | 130 |
Release | 2010-08 |
Genre | Transportation |
ISBN | 9781531648275 |
Report of H. Haupt, Chief Engineer of the Pennsylvania Rail Road Company
Title | Report of H. Haupt, Chief Engineer of the Pennsylvania Rail Road Company PDF eBook |
Author | Herman Haupt |
Publisher | |
Pages | 52 |
Release | 1854 |
Genre | Railroads |
ISBN |
Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad
Title | Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad PDF eBook |
Author | Cynthia L. Ogorek |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 128 |
Release | 2016-08-15 |
Genre | Transportation |
ISBN | 143965719X |
The Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad was a short line running 16 miles from downtown Chicago to Dolton, Illinois, the first suburb south of Chicago, with another line running southeast from Eighty-First Street to the Indiana state line. Built in the 1880s, it was owned by five trunk line railroads that used it as an efficient and inexpensive route into downtown Chicago. Like many 19th-century railroads, the C&WI reached its traffic peak in the middle of the 20th century. After World War II, passenger travel and shipping moved to airlines and over-the-road trucking. The need for rail access into downtown Chicago declined, and the C&WI ended its service in 1994.