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    The Vandalia Railroad Company was incorporated January 1, 1905, by a merger of several lines in Indiana and Illinois that formed a 471-mile railroad consisting...
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  • Vandalia Railroad may refer to: Vandalia Railroad (1983), a shortline subsidiary of Pioneer Railcorp Vandalia Railroad (19051917), a subsidiary of the...
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    D21 - ex-Vandalia Railroad, built by Baldwin 1871-1873 D22 - ex-Vandalia Railroad, built by Pittsburgh 1883-1889 D23 - ex-Vandalia Railroad, built by...
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  • Pacific Railroad (UP) including subsidiary Southern Illinois and Missouri Bridge Company Vandalia Railroad (VRRC) Vermilion Valley Railroad (VVRR) operates...
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    from 1901 to 1904, Vandalia Railroad from 1905 to 1916, and Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis (PCC&StL) beginning in 1917. During this era, the...
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  • St. Louis, Illinois, via Indianapolis, Indiana. In 1905, the acquisition of the Vandalia Railroad gave the Pennsy access across the Mississippi River...
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    The following railroads operate in the U.S. state of Missouri. Arkansas and Missouri Railroad (AM) Affton Terminal Services Railroad (AT) Belton, Grandview...
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  • Wheeling and Kentucky Railroad and Vandalia Railroad merged into the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad January 1, 1917. Cincinnati, Richmond...
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  • Grand Trunk Western Railroad (GTW) Illinois Central Railroad (IC) Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) through 1 subsidiary: Soo Line Railroad (SOO) Central Indiana...
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  • The Pennsylvania Railroad operated dozens of named passenger trains, and in fact, was the largest passenger train operator in the US. All trains discontinued...
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  • The following railroads operate in the U.S. state of Ohio. Akron Barberton Cluster Railway (AB) Ann Arbor Railroad (AA), (Watco) Ashland Railway (ASRY)...
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    worked at the local general store and then as errand boy with the Vandalia Railroad. Landis applied for a job as a brakeman, but was laughingly dismissed...
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    strengthen American interests abroad. When Grant was in Nice he boarded USS Vandalia, a screw sloop-of-war that Hayes had personally sent by for Grant's winter...
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  • Main Line (Pittsburgh to St. Louis) (category Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad lines)
    and the Vandalia Railroad merged in 1917 to form the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad, which the Pennsylvania Railroad leased in...
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    John W. Heavey (category People from Vandalia, Illinois)
    Bureau. John William Heavey was born in Vandalia, Illinois on February 19, 1867 and graduated from Vandalia High School in 1884. He graduated from the...
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    Eugene V. Debs (category People convicted under the Espionage Act of 1917)
    Vandalia Railroad cleaning grease from the trucks of freight engines for fifty cents a day. He later became a painter and car cleaner in the railroad...
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    John W. Garrett (category 19th-century American railroad executives)
    Cumberland, Maryland and further to Ohio and the territorial capital at Vandalia, Illinois, or via the Ohio River toward the Mississippi River, or over...
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    Greenville, Illinois (category Underground Railroad in Illinois)
    Gannett, Henry (1905). The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States. Govt. Print. Off. pp. 144. "Several Stops On 'Underground Railroad' In Bond County"...
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  • through major changes to Class I railroads, the largest class by operating revenue. 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923...
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    1839: National Road completed from Cumberland to Vandalia, Illinois 1842: Baltimore & Ohio Railroad reaches Cumberland 1850: Chesapeake & Ohio Canal reaches...
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    events were also incorporated into the calendar, including Multifest, Vandalia Festival, a July 4 celebration with fireworks at Haddad Riverfront Park...
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    American Revolutionary War. Some speculative land companies, such as the Vandalia Company, the Ohio Company and the Indiana Company, tried but failed to...
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    2007. Vandalia 1 "Vandalia". historycentral.com. Archived from the original on May 3, 2007. Retrieved April 16, 2007. Vandalia 2 "USS Vandalia (1876–1889)"...
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  • Laws of the State of Illinois. Western Illinois University Libraries. Vandalia, Ill. : State Printers. "The Book Menacing Angels That Night By Author...
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    three U.S. Navy ships: a five-month tour of the Mediterranean on the USS Vandalia, travel from Hong Kong to China on the USS Ashuelot, and from China to...
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    commissioned National Road from Baltimore toward St. Louis, eventually built to Vandalia, then the state capital of Illinois, National Pike ran through Frederick...
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  • Class 944 4P 4-6-2 Tank".[permanent dead link] "Steamlocomotive.com – Vandalia Lines / Pennsylvania 4-6-2 "Pacific" Type Locomotives". Archived from the...
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    region. Kaskaskia College has extension centers in the surrounding towns of Vandalia, Salem, Greenville, Trenton, and Nashville. The Harry L.Crisp Technology...
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    Geran was one of 12 principals in the establishment of the Vandalia Coal Company in 1905. Vandalia Coal Company owned and operated mines in the mid-west....
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    Jersey, ratified by Congress in 1834, declared this issue. "Thomas Viaduct Railroad Bridge | ASCE". www.asce.org. Retrieved 2021-12-07. "Tacoma Narrows Bridges...
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