To the Editor of the New-York Times: Holders of stock in the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company; also, all opposed to the increase of the bonded debt to protect the speculating ...

the Aurora Branch soon became the second railroad to reach Chicago. By 1852, a group of investors purchased the small line and expanded its reach by 400 miles. The Aurora Branch name was changed to ...

Thirteen years later, Naperville would be given a second chance. When the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad — the first railroad to connect Chicago to the Mississippi River — came ...

The 1970 merger of the Great Northern, the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, and the Northern Pacific railroads into the Burlington Northern helped smooth the process of clearing railroad ...

The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, commonly known as the Burlington Route, had many Zephyrs. But out of all the streamlined trainsets and services famously named after the Greek God of the ...

Donated by: BNSF Railway (formerly on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad) Original Location: Burlington, Iowa and Gulf Port, Illinois over the Mississippi River Year Built: 1893 (Opened to ...

"This spot, where it used to be a church, was actually used as an Underground Railroad in Chicago before they relocated. Ernest Crim III is talking about Quinn Chapel A.M.E. Church, which is now ...

It was created on March 2, 1970, by the merger of the Northern Pacific Railway; the Great Northern Railway; the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad; and the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway.

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DANBURY, Neb. (KOLN) - In 1888, the Danbury train depot was built alongside the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. When the railroad stopped using the depot, they considered tearing down the ...

a fierce competition is kept up at Quincy -- the terminus of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad -- for all Eastern business. It is a well-known fact that Mr. JOY, the attorney of the ...