The Chicago, Indiana and Southern Railroad is a former railroad which operated in the states of

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and

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during the early 20th century. The CI&S formed in 1906 from the consolidation of the two other railroads: the Indiana, Illinois and Iowa Railroad and the Indiana Harbor Railroad. The new railroad also owned the

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of the Danville and Indiana Harbor Railroad. The stock of the new company itself was wholly owned by the

Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, established in 1833 and sometimes referred to as the Lake Shore, was a major part of the New York Central Railroad's Water Level Route from Buffalo, New York, to Chicago, Illinois, primarily along the ...

and the Michigan Central Railroad, both of which were part of the New York Central system. A 1907 report called the CI&S a "tributary to the Lake Shore." The railroad operated two lines: a north–south line between Indiana Harbor (

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) and

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, and a line from the Spring Valley

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s at Seatonville, Illinois, to

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. Together the two lines controlled of track. In 1914 the CI&S was one of several railroads consolidated to form the modern New York Central Railroad., pp. 103.

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