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Illinois Central 201
Illinois Central 201 is a steam locomotive, originally owned and operated by Illinois Central Railroad. In 1949, the locomotive was operated at the Chicago Railroad Fair as part of the "Wheels A-Rolling" pageant. It is now on static display at Illinois Railway Museum in Union, Illinois. Service 201 was one of several 2-4-4T locomotives built for commuter service between the edge of the Chicago Loop and the South suburbs (now part of the Metra Electric District). Preservation 1401 was retired in 1926 when the IC electrified the route. The rest of the fleet retired in 1935 from yard service; some were sold to other railroads. in 1934, it was renumbered back into 201 where it took part at the Chicago Worlds Fair for many years until 1949. In 1975, the locomotive was sold to a private owner and displayed in front of the depot in Owatonna, Minnesota. It was later donated to the Illinois Railway Museum in 2002. References * * * 2-4-4T locomotives 201 Year 201 ( CCI) was a ...
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Illinois Railway Museum
The Illinois Railway Museum (IRM, reporting mark IRMX) is the largest railroad museum in the United States. It is located in the Chicago metropolitan area at 7000 Olson Road in Union, Illinois, northwest of downtown Chicago. Overview History The museum was founded in 1953 by ten people who joined to purchase Indiana Railroad interurban car 65. Originally called the Illinois Electric Railway Museum, the museum was located on the grounds of the Chicago Hardware Foundry in North Chicago. In 1961, it was renamed to the Illinois Railway Museum to reflect its expanding scope. In 1964, the museum moved to Union, Illinois along the former right-of-way of the Elgin and Belvidere Electric Company. In 1968 the first steam locomotive was operated at the museum. The first storage barn was erected in 1972. In 1981, a streetcar loop was constructed. The right-of-way the museum was constructed next to still had back taxes into the 1980s. To gain full use of the track, the museum p ...
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Owatonna, Minnesota
Owatonna ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Steele County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 26,420 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Owatonna is home to the Steele County Fairgrounds, which hosts the Steele County Free Fair in August. Interstate 35 in Minnesota, Interstate 35 and U.S. Highways U.S. Route 14 in Minnesota, 14 and U.S. Route 218#Minnesota, 218 are three of the main routes in the city. History Whites settled in the Owatonna area in 1853 around the Straight River (southern Minnesota), Straight River. Most of the white settlers were Yankee, Yankees from New England and Upstate New York The community was named after the Straight River,Upham, Warren (reprint, 2001)Minnesota Place Names: A Geographical Encyclopedia/ref> which in the Dakota language is ''Wakpá Owóthaŋna''. A popular, but apocryphal, story is that the town is named after "Princess Owatonna", the daughter of local Native American Chief Wabena who was supposedly healed by a ...
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Preserved Steam Locomotives Of The United States
Preservation may refer to: Heritage and conservation * Preservation (library and archival science), activities aimed at prolonging the life of a record while making as few changes as possible * Preservation (magazine), ''Preservation'' (magazine), published by the National Trust for Historic Preservation * Historic preservation, endeavor to preserve, conserve and protect buildings, objects, landscapes or other artifacts * Conservation and restoration of cultural heritage, protection and care of tangible cultural heritage Mathematics and computer science * Type preservation, property of a type system if evaluation of expressions does not cause their type to change * Case preservation, when computer storage preserves the distinction between upper and lower case * Digital preservation, endeavor to ensure that digital information of continuing value remains accessible and usable Arts and entertainment * ''Preservation'' (2018 novel), historical fiction by Jock Serong about the ...
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Individual Locomotives Of The United States
An individual is one that exists as a distinct entity. Individuality (or self-hood) is the state or quality of living as an individual; particularly (in the case of humans) as a person unique from other people and possessing one's own needs or goals, rights and responsibilities. The concept of an individual features in many fields, including biology, law, and philosophy. Every individual contributes significantly to the growth of a civilization. Society is a multifaceted concept that is shaped and influenced by a wide range of different things, including human behaviors, attitudes, and ideas. The culture, morals, and beliefs of others as well as the general direction and trajectory of the society can all be influenced and shaped by an individual's activities. Etymology From the 15th century and earlier (and also today within the fields of statistics and metaphysics) ''individual'' meant " indivisible", typically describing any numerically singular thing, but sometimes meanin ...
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Rogers Locomotives
Rogers may refer to: Places Canada *Rogers Pass (British Columbia) * Rogers Island (Nunavut) United States * Rogers, Arkansas, a city * Rogers, alternate name of Muroc, California, a former settlement * Rogers, Indiana, an unincorporated community * Rogers, Kansas, an unincorporated community * Rogers, Kentucky, an unincorporated community * Rogers, Minnesota, a city * Rogers, Nebraska, a village * Rogers, New Mexico, an unincorporated community * Rogers, North Dakota, a city * Rogers, Ohio, a village * Rogers, Texas, a town * Rogers, Virginia, an unincorporated community * Petroleum, West Virginia, also known as Rogers, an unincorporated community * Rogers Brook, Pennsylvania * Rogers City, Michigan, a city * Rogers Corner, Michigan, an unincorporated community * Rogers County, Oklahoma * Rogers Creek (Missouri) * Rogers Creek (Pennsylvania) * Rogers Island (Connecticut) * Rogers Island (New York) * Rogers Lake (other) * Rogers Pass (Colorado) * Rogers Pass (Monta ...
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Illinois Central Locomotives
Illinois ( ) is a state in the Midwestern United States. It borders on Lake Michigan to its northeast, the Mississippi River to its west, and the Wabash and Ohio rivers to its south. Of the fifty U.S. states, Illinois has the fifth-largest gross domestic product (GDP), the sixth-largest population, and the 25th-most land area. Its capital city is Springfield in the center of the state, and the state's largest city is Chicago in the northeast. Present-day Illinois was inhabited by Indigenous cultures for thousands of years. The French were the first Europeans to arrive, settling near the Mississippi and Illinois rivers in the 17th century Illinois Country, as part of their sprawling colony of New France. A century later, the revolutionary war Illinois campaign prefigured American involvement in the region. Following U.S. independence in 1783, which made the Mississippi River the national boundary, American settlers began arriving from Kentucky via the Ohio River. Illin ...
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Railroad History
''Railroad History'' (initially, ''The Railway & Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin'') is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal An academic journal (or scholarly journal or scientific journal) is a periodical publication in which Scholarly method, scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. They serve as permanent and transparent forums for the ... published by the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society since 1921. ''Railroad History'' consists primarily of articles about the history of rail transport with some essays and book reviews. As of 2022, its editor is Dan Cupper. The RLHS is a non-profit organization founded in 1921 in the United States to promote research into and preservation of documentation and photography of railroad-related business, finance, labor, biography, and technology. History The journal began publication in 1921 as ''The Railway & Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin''. The journal's title was changed to ''Railr ...
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Century Of Progress
A Century of Progress International Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, was a world's fair held in the city of Chicago, Illinois, United States, from 1933 to 1934. The fair, registered under the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE), celebrated the city's centennial. Designed largely in Art Deco style, the theme of the fair was technological innovation, and its motto was "Science Finds, Industry Applies, Man Conforms", trumpeting the message that science and American life were wedded. Its architectural symbol was the Sky Ride, a transporter bridge perpendicular to the shore on which one could ride from one side of the fair to the other. One description of the fair noted that the world, "then still mired in the malaise of the Great Depression, could glimpse a happier not-too-distant future, all driven by innovation in science and technology". Fair visitors saw the latest wonders in rail travel, automobiles, architecture and even cigarette-smoking robots. T ...
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Rogers Locomotive And Machine Works
Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works was a manufacturer of railroad steam locomotives based in Paterson, New Jersey, Paterson, in Passaic County, New Jersey, Passaic County, New Jersey, in the United States. Between its founding in 1832 and its acquisition in 1905, the company built more than 6,000 steam locomotives for railroads around the world. Most 19th-century U.S. railroads owned at least one Rogers-built locomotive. The company's most famous product was a locomotive named ''The General (locomotive), The General'', built in December 1855, which was one of the principals of the Great Locomotive Chase of the American Civil War. The company was founded by Thomas Rogers (locomotive builder), Thomas Rogers in an 1832 partnership with Morris Ketchum and Jasper Grosvenor as Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor. Rogers remained president until his death in 1856. His son, Jacob S. Rogers, reorganized the company as Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works and led the company until he retired in 18 ...
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Metra Electric District
The Metra Electric District is an electrified commuter rail line owned and operated by Metra which connects Millennium Station (formerly Randolph Street Station), in downtown Chicago, with the city's southern suburbs. As of 2018, it is the fifth busiest of Metra's 11 lines, after the BNSF, UP-NW, UP-N, and UP-W Lines with nearly 7.7 million annual riders. While Metra does not explicitly refer to any of its lines by color, the timetable accents for the Metra Electric District are printed in bright "Panama orange" to reflect the line's origins with the Illinois Central Railroad (IC) and its '' Panama Limited'' passenger train. Apart from the spots where its tracks run parallel to other main lines, it is the only Metra line running entirely on dedicated passenger tracks, with no freight trains operating anywhere on the route (the only exceptions perhaps being occasional work or repair trains). The line is the only one in the Metra system with more than one station in Downtown C ...
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Chicago Loop
The Loop is Chicago's central business district and one of the city's 77 municipally recognized Community areas in Chicago, community areas. Located at the center of downtown Chicago on the shores of Lake Michigan, it is the second-largest business district in North America, after Midtown Manhattan in New York City. The world headquarters and regional offices of several global and national businesses, retail establishments, restaurants, hotels, museums, theaters, and libraries—as well as many of Chicago's most famous attractions—are located in the Loop. The district also hosts Chicago's Chicago City Hall, City Hall, the seat of Cook County, Illinois, Cook County, offices of the state of Illinois, United States federal offices, as well as several foreign consulates. The intersection of State Street (Chicago), State Street and Madison Street (Chicago), Madison Street in the Loop is the origin point for the address system on Roads and expressways in Chicago, Chicago's street gri ...
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