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    The Alton Railroad (reporting mark A) was the final name of a railroad linking Chicago to Alton, Illinois; St. Louis, Missouri; and Kansas City, Missouri...
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  • Railroad Retirement Act, Railroad Retirement Board v. Alton Railroad Co. Its similarity with the Social Security Act meant the test of the railroad pension...
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    Central Railroad (reporting mark NYC) was a railroad primarily operating in the Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The railroad primarily...
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  • following railroads are operating in the U.S. state of Illinois. A&R Terminal Railroad (ART) AgRail (AGRL) Ag Valley Railroad (AVRR) Alton and Southern...
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  • Youngstown Railroad Alabama Great Southern Railroad Alabama, Tennessee and Northern Railroad Alabama and Vicksburg Railway Alton Railroad Ann Arbor Railroad Arizona...
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  • Balonne Alton, Ontario Alton, Nova Scotia Alton, New Zealand, in Taranaki Alton, Derbyshire, England Alton, Hampshire, England Alton Abbey Alton College...
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    Halsted Street serving the lines of the Alton Railroad (now the Joliet Subdivision), the Illinois Central Railroad (now the Freeport Subdivision), and the...
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    dozen families in Lexington. On 4 July 1854 the railroad, which would soon be known as the Chicago and Alton, reached Lexington. Suddenly everything changed...
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  • and Northern Railroad and the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, which was accomplished in 1940. The GM&O later bought and merged the Alton Railroad in 1947. Isaac...
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    Gateway Western Railway (category Defunct Illinois railroads)
    Railway (reporting mark GWWR) was a Class II railroad that operated 408 miles of former Chicago and Alton Railroad track between Kansas City and St. Louis...
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  • York City Subway service), also known as the "A Eighth Avenue Express" Alton Railroad (reporting mark) A Line (Los Angeles Metro) Britain LCDR A class, British...
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    station in Kirkwood, Missouri. The former Alton Railroad station, later used by the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad was built of brick. This station was located...
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    cross the river to seek shelter in Alton, and proceed to safer places through stations of the Underground Railroad. During the years before the American...
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    Inc. Alton Railroad Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Atchison and Nebraska Railroad Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Bevier...
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    Kansas City Union Station (category Former Chicago and Alton Railroad stations)
    Terminal Railway, a switching and terminal railroad that was a joint operation of these railroads: Alton; Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe; Chicago, Burlington...
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    shipments along a well integrated network of standard gauge private freight railroads that also extend into Canada and Mexico. The United States has the largest...
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    appointments. B&O 52 was sold to the Alton Railroad in 1940. This locomotive became a Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad unit in 1947. The EA/EB—along with...
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    The Dwight Chicago and Alton depot is a former railroad depot in Dwight, Illinois, United States. The historic depot, in used by passengers from 1891 until...
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    Chicago and Alton Railroad to haul the Abraham Lincoln. When the Alton left B&O control in the merger that created the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad, #50 entered...
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    its history, the village was a railway town along the Terre Haute and Alton Railroad. In the 19th century, industry in the town included milling of grain...
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    Galeton Railroad in 1955. (This list omits certain short lines.) The Chicago and Alton Railroad was purchased by the B&O in 1931 and renamed the Alton Railroad...
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    Washington, DC. Later that year it was sent to the B&O-owned Chicago & Alton Railroad. It returned to the B&O in 1942 during World War 2 and, after work in...
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    St. Louis Union Station (category Former Chicago and Alton Railroad stations)
    Greyhound Bus. The station was opened on September 1, 1894, by the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis. The station was designed by Theodore Link, and...
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    locomotive designed under the control of the United States Railroad Administration, the nationalized railroad system in the United States during World War I. This...
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    The Little River Railroad is a heritage railroad located in Coldwater, Michigan. The train runs to Quincy, Michigan and occasionally Hillsdale, Michigan...
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    Chicago Union Station (category Former Chicago and Alton Railroad stations)
    following railroads: Chicago and Alton Railroad – only a tenant, later part of the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (Burlington...
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    of local railroads. In 1854, railroad surveyors from the Illinois Central Railroad and Terre Haute and Alton Railroad found their railroads would cross...
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  • The Alton and Southern Railway (reporting mark ALS) is a switching railroad in the Greater St. Louis area in Illinois. It is a wholly owned subsidiary...
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    Lawndale was laid out and platted in 1854, soon after the Alton & Sangamon (now Chicago & Alton) railroad was extended to that point. A post office called Lawndale...
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    Runner. The Alton Railroad inaugurated the Ann Rutledge in 1937 as a companion to the Abraham Lincoln over the St. Louis–Chicago route. The Alton named the...
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