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. In his book, " Illinois Central Railroad ," author Tom Murray notes that after officials passed the Internal Improvement Act in 1837, $10 million was set aside to construct 1,300 miles across the state. Illinois Central E8A #4028 is seen here tied down in Memphis, Tennessee on November 13, 1966.
Illinois Central Railroad by John F. Bjorklund Center for Railroad Photography & Art
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 (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 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. 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.
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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. 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. During the 1830's, Illinois began a program of internal improvements to expand the market for Illinois farm products and encourage settlement. The effort nearly bankrupt the state but had one major successful achievement, the building of the Illinois Central Railroad. The railroad was chartered in 1851 and received a land grant, signed by President Millard Filmore, of nearly 2,600,000 acres. 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.
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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 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.
The Illinois Central Railroad and the Canadian Nationl Railroad merged in 1999. The CN Railroad's web site is at www.cn.ca. Their web site is a good place to look for the information you are seeking. -- Tom Parker llinois Central, Class of 2004 Memphis, Tennessee 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.
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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. 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.
