• The Chicago and Joliet Electric Railway, or C&JE, was an electric interurban railway linking the cities of Chicago and Joliet, Illinois. It was the only...
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  • Terminal. The Chicago and Joliet Electric Railway had a terminal at Archer Avenue and Cicero Avenue. In the aftermath of the Great Chicago Fire, a C&NW freight...
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    Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway (reporting mark EJE) was a Class II railroad, making a roughly circular path between Waukegan, Illinois and Gary, Indiana...
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  • Electric Railway Chicago General Railway Chicago, Harvard and Geneva Lake Railway (CH&G) Chicago and Joliet Electric Railway Chicago, Lake Shore and South...
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    interurban electric railway service was provided by the Chicago and Joliet Electric Railway until 1934. Most of the residential buildings now in Brighton...
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    the Chicago and Joliet Electric Railway Dixieland Amusement Park, South Jacksonville (Jacksonville), Florida. (South Jacksonville Municipal Railways; destroyed...
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    railroads in the Chicago area, with connections to the Port of Chicago, Proviso Yard and Joliet. The railroad's primary businesses are coal and steel. The coal...
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    made with the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway (EJ&E) and the Milwaukee Road at Rondout, and with the Wisconsin Central Railway at Mundelein.: 17  The...
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  • Rice, R. H. (March 9, 1907). "Operation and Construction of the Elgin & Belvidere Railway". Electric Railway Review. XVII (10): 322. "Elgin". Sterling...
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    Summit, Illinois (category Chicago metropolitan area)
    1901 the Chicago and Joliet Electric Railway Interurban was operating a double-track line down Archer Ave. To the east it connected with Chicago streetcars...
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  • The Chicago, Ottawa and Peoria Railway, or CO&P, was an electric interurban railway running along the Illinois River Valley between Joliet and Princeton...
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  • general manager for the Chicago and Joliet Electric Railway for six years, in addition to being the president of the JP&A and the general manager of the...
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  • Electric. Owning railroads were: Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway: 2 locomotives, #400-401 Lehigh Valley Railroad: 11 locomotives, #120-130 Chicago,...
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    Ave., and south to Ogden Ave. On Ogden Ave., the line went west to Lawndale Ave. and had a connection with the Chicago and Joliet Electric Railway in Lyons...
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    Rock Island District (category Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad)
    Island District (RI) is a Metra commuter rail line from Chicago, Illinois, southwest to Joliet. Metra does not refer to its lines by color, but the timetable...
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  • Indiana. Canadian National Railway (CN) through 3 subsidiaries: Wisconsin Central (WC) Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway - now part of Wisconsin Central(EJE)...
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    Cog Hill Golf & Country Club (category Golf clubs and courses in Illinois)
    at Chicago's Boston Store, which, at that time, was one of the downtown Chicago's leading department stores. The Chicago and Joliet Electric Railway ran...
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    Joliet Gateway Center is a multimodal mass transit center in downtown Joliet, Illinois. It opened in 2018, replacing the nearby Joliet Union Station as...
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    The EA&S merged with the Aurora Elgin & Chicago Railway in 1906 and became the new Aurora Elgin & Chicago Railroad's Fox River Division. The company...
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  • Central Illinois Public Service Company (category Electric power companies of the United States)
    Company ended electric railway operations with the abandonment of the Chicago and Joliet Electric Railway and the Southern Illinois Railway and Power Company...
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    Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway In 2009, CN acquired the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway to assist with traffic congestion in Chicago and the surrounding...
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    served as the primary terminal for the Chicago and North Western Railway and its successors Union Pacific and Metra. Intercity services had disappeared...
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    The Chicago, Wheaton and Western Railway, a lightly built interurban electric railway, came in from the east, running down the middle of Junction and Depot...
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    establishing nearby Joliet Junior College as the first in the nation in 1901. His legacy continues with the multiple community colleges in the Chicago proper, including...
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  • List of Class I railroads (category United States railway-related lists)
    and Pacific Railway El Paso and Southwestern Company Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway Erie Railroad Erie-Lackawanna Railroad Erie Lackawanna Railway...
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    Metra (redirect from Chicago Metra)
    system in the Chicago metropolitan area serving the city of Chicago and its surrounding suburbs via the Union Pacific Railroad, BNSF Railway, and other railroads...
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    Corridor (HC) is a Metra commuter rail line in Chicago, Illinois, and its southwestern suburbs, terminating in Joliet, Illinois. While Metra does not refer to...
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  • January 23 – Canadian National Railway closes on purchase of Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway. February 2 – opening of WES Commuter Rail line from Wilsonville...
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    Southern Railway 4501 visited the station in 1973. The 765 pulled trips to Joliet, Illinois over Metra's Rock Island District dubbed the Joliet Rocket....
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    stopping at stations shared with the Electric District only pick up passengers heading eastbound (outbound from Chicago) and only discharge passengers heading...
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