The Cincinnati Express train, due here at 7:20 A.M., ran into the rear end of the Hyde Park train of the Illinois Central Railroad, about 10 minutes before 8 o'clock, as the latter was just ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The Steel-Frame Side-Door Passenger Car Built by the Illinois Central Railroad Company ” in SA Supplements Vol. 56 No. 1448supp (October ...

ABOVE: An 1870 ad for the Illinois Central Railway touted a trip from Chicago to Cairo — ‘without change of Cars.’ BELOW: That railroad arose out of a pair of land-grant bills introduced two ...