The Illinois Northern Railroad (reporting mark IN) was an industrial switching railroad serving Chicago's southwest side. From their yard at 26th St....

The Illinois Central Railroad (reporting mark IC), sometimes called the Main Line of Mid-America, was a railroad in the Central United States. Its primary...

The 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...

Burlington Northern Railroad (reporting mark BN) was a United States–based railroad company formed from a merger of four major U.S. railroads. Burlington...

Island Railroad). In 1970, it merged with the Northern Pacific Railway and the Great Northern Railway to form the Burlington Northern Railroad. The earliest...

called the "Santa Fe") and Burlington Northern Railroad, and formally merged the railways into the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway on December 31...

The Illinois and Midland Railroad (reporting mark IMRR) is a railroad in the U.S. state of Illinois, serving Peoria, Springfield and Taylorville. Until...

of Illinois 1865 Sangamon and Morgan Railroad 1853 Northern Cross Railway 1847 Illinois and Southern Iowa Railroad 1865 Quincy and Toledo Railroad 1865...

South Bend Railroad (reporting mark CSS), also known as the South Shore Line, is a Class III freight railroad operating between Chicago, Illinois, and South...

Mobile 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...

II railroad, making a roughly circular path between Waukegan, Illinois and Gary, Indiana. The railroad served as a link between Class I railroads traveling...

Railroad Illinois Central Railroad Illinois Central Gulf Railroad Illinois Terminal Company Illinois Terminal Railroad Indianapolis Southern Railroad...

create the Northeast Illinois Regional Commuter Railroad Corporation to operate their lines directly in 1982. In 1983 the Illinois Legislature reorganized...

Chicago, Madison, and Northern Railroad was a railroad company in the United States. It was established by the Illinois Central Railroad in 1886 to construct...

Terminal Railroad (HTRC) Idaho Northern and Pacific Railroad (INPR) Illinois and Midland Railroad (IMRR) Illinois Railway (IR) Illinois Western Railroad (ILW)...

manufacturing and agricultural economies. Northern Illinois is also one of the world's busiest freight railroad and truck traffic corridors. Interstate...

The Northern Pacific Railway (reporting mark NP) was an important transcontinental railroad that operated across the northern tier of the western United...

Wisconsin and Southern Railroad (reporting mark WSOR) is a Class II regional railroad in Southern Wisconsin and Northeastern Illinois currently operated by...

shipping route between Chicago and the lead mines near Galena, Illinois. The railroad company was chartered on January 16, 1836, but financial difficulties...

Cairo, Illinois. On September 13, 1940, it was merged with the Gulf, Mobile and Northern Railroad to form the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad. At the...

The Louisville and Nashville Railroad (reporting mark LN), commonly called the L&N, was a Class I railroad that operated freight and passenger services...

The Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis Railroad (CP&StL) was a railroad in the U.S. state of Illinois that operated a main line between Pekin (near Peoria)...

(1946). The railroad officially ceased independent operations on December 31, 1996, when it merged with the Burlington Northern Railroad to form the Burlington...

Central Railroad (1852-1874), the properties originally belonging to the New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern were merged into the Illinois Central...

through Indianapolis, Indiana, to East St. Louis, Illinois. The Steubenville and Indiana Railroad was chartered February 24, 1848, in Ohio to build west...

The Lake Erie and Western Railroad was a railroad that operated in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. The Lake Erie and Western main line extended from Sandusky...

The Chicago and Illinois Western Railroad (reporting mark CIW) was an industrial switching railroad serving the west side of Chicago and southwest Cook...

Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, South Dakota and Wisconsin. Large line sales, such as those that resulted in the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad, further...

a major part of the New York Central Railroad's Water Level Route from Buffalo, New York, to Chicago, Illinois, primarily along the south shore of Lake...

Jersey for the Illinois Central Railroad. Constructed in 1898, the locomotive was used for fast passenger service between Chicago, Illinois and New Orleans...