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The Indiana Railroad was created on July 2, 1930, when Midland Utilities purchased the Union Traction Company of Indiana (UTC) and transferred ownership to the IR. Union Traction (UTC) was the largest interurban system in Indiana with 410 miles (660 km) of interurban trackage and 44 miles (71 km) of streetcar lines in Anderson, Elwood, Marion and Muncie.
List of Norfolk Southern Railway lines. The Norfolk Southern Railway owns and operates A vast network of rail lines in the United States east of the Mississippi River. In addition to lines inherited from predecessor railroads, Norfolk and Western, and the Southern Railway, it acquired many lines as part of the split of the Conrail system in 1999.
The Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad was chartered in Indiana on May 11, 1852, and organized September 14, 1852, as a further extension west to Chicago. It was chartered February 5, 1853, in Illinois. The first section opened in February 1856 from Fort Wayne to Columbia City. On July 26, 1856, the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Rail Road was ...
1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in) standard gauge. The Fort Wayne Line and Fort Wayne Secondary is a rail line owned and operated by the Norfolk Southern Railway (NS), Chicago, Fort Wayne and Eastern Railroad (CFE), and CSX Transportation in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana. The line runs from Pittsburgh, west via Fort Wayne, Indiana, to Gary, Indiana ...
At the time it had three 3,000 ft (910 m) concrete runways. The Army Air Force took control from 1942 to 1945, using it for flight training. [8] A September 1946 diagram shows runways 5, 10 and 16 all 4,000 ft (1,200 m) long; [13] in April 1951 runway 5 was 5,000 ft (1,500 m) and 5R was under construction. A few years later 5R was 5,466 ft ...
400+. Volunteers. 70. The Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society (FWRHS) is a non-profit group in New Haven, Indiana that is dedicated to the restoration and operation of the ex- Nickel Plate Railroad's steam locomotive no. 765 and other vintage railroad equipment. Since restoration, the 765 was added to the National Register of Historic Places ...
Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad: Ohio River Junction Railroad: 1908 1908 North Shore Railroad: Ohio River and Lake Erie Railroad: B&LE: 1881 1886 Erie, Shenango and Pittsburgh Railway: Oil City and Chicago Railroad: PRR: 1882 1882 Buffalo, New York and Philadelphia Railroad: Oil Creek Railroad: PRR: 1860 1868 Oil Creek and Allegheny ...
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