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Chicago & Illinois Midland by Wallin Stringham Szwajkart w/ dust jacket
Chicago & Illinois Midland by Wallin Stringham Szwajkart
Hard Cover with dust jacket
Copyright 1979
240 pages. Indexed
Table of Contents
Introduction 9
Chapter 1 - The Pawnee Railroad 15
Chapter 2 - Beginning of the Insull Era 23
Chapter 3 - The Chicago & Illinois Midland Railroad 31
Chapter 4 - CP&StL - The Makeup of the Parts 47
Chapter 5 - The Decline of the Chicago, Peoria & St. Louis63
Chapter 6 - Coming of Age89
Chapter 7 - After Insull131
Appendix 221
Richard R. Wallin Paul H. Stringham
John Szwajkart
WITH MORE THAN 355 ILLUSTRATIONS
MAPS-REPRODUCTIONS-ROSTER OF MOTIVE POWER
BIBLIOGRAPHY-INDEX
The Chicago & Illinois Midland Railway packs all the power and punch of a big time railroad into capsule form, for this common carrier operates only 121 route miles of track and displays its diamond herald on only 21 diesel locomotives. For Chicago-based Commonwealth Edison, the sole owner of the Midland, these are ideal specifications; because the railroad exists to roll Illinois coal and unit trains of Western low-sulphur coal to Havana for the barge run up the Illinois River to Chicago.
Originally, the C&IM began life as the Pawnee Railroad, an outlet for farm products. With the development of the rich coal fields of Sangamon and Christian counties, the road was purchased by the utility and organized as the Central Illinois Railway Company to form an intricate part of the Samuel Insull utility empire. The name was later changed to the Chicago & Illinois Midland Railroad and then expanded. In 1926 portions of the defunct Chicago, Peoria & St. Louis Railroad were purchased and upgraded to give the Midland a main line through Springfield to Peoria via Havana. This provided a direct rail-river route for coal bound for Commonwealth Edison power generating stations.
While the Midland has a perfect physical plant complete with heavy rail, crushed rock ballast, and enormous coal gondola cars, it stayed with the steam locomotive while other American roads switched to diesel power. Thus the C&IM was able to purchase excellent steamers at secondhand prices to become the last 100 percent steam operated railroad in the U.S.A.
Nearly 75 years ago the Insull interests (Commonwealth Edison) obtained the C&IM to serve as a link in the process of converting coal to electricity
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