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Brake beam department

Shipping department

New York Central Steam Locomotive #999;

Museum and Santa Fe Railroad Model

Cooksville, Illinois, in the late 1800s

Masthead from McLean County Anti-Monopolist

Rail Testing Lab

The range and ranch cattle area of the United States : 1884

Official map, Chicago Terminal District

Rock Island-Frisco systems

State of Illinois / compiled from the official records of the General Land Office and other sources under the supervision of G.P. Strum

Map of the United States : exhibiting the principal rail road & steam boat routes

Map of the Missouri Pacific Railway, Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, Rio Grande Western Railway, Rio Grande Southern Railroad, St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway, Texas & Pacific Railway, International & Great Northern Railroad, St. Louis Southwestern Railway : leased, operated & independent lines and connections

Railroad map of Illinois / prepared under the direction of, and presented by Orville F. Berry, B.A. Eckhart, Jas. A. Willoughby, Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners

Illinois railroads

Railroad map of Illinois / prepared under the direction of and presented by James S. Neville, Arthur L. French, Isaac L. Ellwood, Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners ; Wm. Kilpatrick, secretary ; Frank G. Ewald, consulting engineering

Map of Illinois

County map of Georgia and Alabama : the great agricultural and industrial states of the southeast / published by the Traffic Department, Central of Georgia Railway

Railroad map of Illinois, 1915 / prepared under direction of State Public Utilities Commission of Illinois

Coltons railroad map of part of the United States : north of the 37th parallel embracing the country between the Atlantic Ocean and the 96th meridian of longitude

The Belt Railway Company of Chicago : connects with all trunk lines at Chicago

Map of the state of Illinois, N. America showing all its rail-roads completed or in progress connecting with lines direct to N. York, S. Louis & Canada, their stations, distances & : showing also the counties, county towns, post offices, canals & principal rivers, coal and lead mine districts, timber and meadow lands

Railroad map of Illinois / prepared under the direction of, and presented by James S. Neville, Arthur L. French, Isaac L. Ellwood, Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners ; Wm. Kilpatrick, secretary ; Frank G. Ewald, consulting engineer

Official map of the Union Pacific Railway : through Kansas & Nebraska and from Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Washington, Oregon & California

Blanchard's map of the north western states : showing the counties, towns, railroads, stations, steamboat landing etc.

Comitato promotore della ferrovia Santhià Locarno

Railway lines south from Chicago

Smaller freight tunnel

Chicago general offices

Shop No. 2

Bolster department

The Green Diamond, Illinois Central Railroad

Union Depot, Bloomington, Illinois

Weston Depot

Granger Protest Meeting

Train platform, Champaign, Illinois

Map, McLean County Railroads in 1900

Merna Grain Elevator 1997

Map, McLean County Railroads in 1860

Rail Testing Lab

Brake beam department
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Brake Beam Department--North". The Chicago Railway Equipment Company was established in 1887, and in its first twenty years of operation it produced and sold over six million brake beams. (Source: Encyclopedia of Chicago http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/2387.html. ) Photograph is included in section on company's Detroit facility.
Shipping department
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoPhotograph is included in section on company's Grand Rapids facility.
New York Central Steam Locomotive #999;
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The New York Central 999 steam locomotive and fuel car measure approximately sixteen feet tall, ten feet wide, and forty-eight feet long. The driving wheels are seven feet, two inches tall. The locomotive and fuel car weigh 124,000 pounds. The locomotive, with two driving wheels on each side, is painted black with silver trim, and has brass components.
Museum and Santa Fe Railroad Model
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Museum and Santa Fe Railroad exhibit consists of 1,200 feet of track running through a 3,000 square-foot landscape representing, the Great Plains, the Arizona desert and Grand Canyon, and California. Sprawled across the model landscape are a suburban village, an elevated highway, a commercial grain elevator, a cement factory, an oil field and refinery, an orange grove, a...
Cooksville, Illinois, in the late 1800s
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This photo shows the business section of Cooksville in 1885.
Masthead from McLean County Anti-Monopolist
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This masthead is from an anti-monopolist newspaper briefly published in Saybrook.
Rail Testing Lab
Audio | 1949 | WILL Sound Recordings (Digital Surrogates)
The range and ranch cattle area of the United States : 1884
Image | 1885 | Railroad MapsThe range and ranch cattle area of the United States : 1884
Official map, Chicago Terminal District
Image | 1942 | Railroad MapsOfficial map, Chicago Terminal District
Rock Island-Frisco systems
Image | 1904 | Railroad MapsRock Island-Frisco systems
State of Illinois / compiled from the official records of the General Land Office and other sources under the supervision of G.P. Strum
Image | 1885 | Railroad MapsState of Illinois / compiled from the official records of the General Land Office and other sources under the supervision of G.P. Strum
Map of the United States : exhibiting the principal rail road & steam boat routes
Image | 1850 | Railroad MapsMap of the United States : exhibiting the principal rail road & steam boat routes
Map of the Missouri Pacific Railway, Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, Rio Grande Western Railway, Rio Grande Southern Railroad, St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway, Texas & Pacific Railway, International & Great Northern Railroad, St. Louis Southwestern Railway : leased, operated & independent lines and connections
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1904 | Railroad MapsMap of the Missouri Pacific Railway, Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, Rio Grande Western Railway, Rio Grande Southern Railroad, St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway, Texas & Pacific Railway, International & Great Northern Railroad, St. Louis Southwestern Railway : leased, operated & independent lines and connections
Railroad map of Illinois / prepared under the direction of, and presented by Orville F. Berry, B.A. Eckhart, Jas. A. Willoughby, Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1911 | Railroad MapsRailroad map of Illinois / prepared under the direction of, and presented by Orville F. Berry, B.A. Eckhart, Jas. A. Willoughby, Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners
Illinois railroads
Image | 1901 | Railroad MapsIllinois railroads
Railroad map of Illinois / prepared under the direction of and presented by James S. Neville, Arthur L. French, Isaac L. Ellwood, Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners ; Wm. Kilpatrick, secretary ; Frank G. Ewald, consulting engineering
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1902 | Railroad MapsRailroad map of Illinois / prepared under the direction of and presented by James S. Neville, Arthur L. French, Isaac L. Ellwood, Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners ; Wm. Kilpatrick, secretary ; Frank G. Ewald, consulting engineering
Map of Illinois
Image | 1910 | Railroad MapsMap of Illinois
County map of Georgia and Alabama : the great agricultural and industrial states of the southeast / published by the Traffic Department, Central of Georgia Railway
Image | 1901 | Railroad MapsCounty map of Georgia and Alabama : the great agricultural and industrial states of the southeast / published by the Traffic Department, Central of Georgia Railway
Railroad map of Illinois, 1915 / prepared under direction of State Public Utilities Commission of Illinois
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1915 | Railroad MapsRailroad map of Illinois, 1915 / prepared under direction of State Public Utilities Commission of Illinois
Coltons railroad map of part of the United States : north of the 37th parallel embracing the country between the Atlantic Ocean and the 96th meridian of longitude
Image | 1883 | Railroad MapsColtons railroad map of part of the United States : north of the 37th parallel embracing the country between the Atlantic Ocean and the 96th meridian of longitude
The Belt Railway Company of Chicago : connects with all trunk lines at Chicago
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1929-1945 | Railroad MapsThe Belt Railway Company of Chicago : connects with all trunk lines at Chicago
Map of the state of Illinois, N. America showing all its rail-roads completed or in progress connecting with lines direct to N. York, S. Louis & Canada, their stations, distances & : showing also the counties, county towns, post offices, canals & principal rivers, coal and lead mine districts, timber and meadow lands
Image | 1855 | Railroad MapsMap of the state of Illinois, N. America showing all its rail-roads completed or in progress connecting with lines direct to N. York, S. Louis & Canada, their stations, distances & : showing also the counties, county towns, post offices, canals & principal rivers, coal and lead mine districts, timber and meadow lands
Railroad map of Illinois / prepared under the direction of, and presented by James S. Neville, Arthur L. French, Isaac L. Ellwood, Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners ; Wm. Kilpatrick, secretary ; Frank G. Ewald, consulting engineer
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1903 | Railroad MapsRailroad map of Illinois / prepared under the direction of, and presented by James S. Neville, Arthur L. French, Isaac L. Ellwood, Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners ; Wm. Kilpatrick, secretary ; Frank G. Ewald, consulting engineer
Official map of the Union Pacific Railway : through Kansas & Nebraska and from Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Washington, Oregon & California
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1886 | Railroad MapsOfficial map of the Union Pacific Railway : through Kansas & Nebraska and from Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Washington, Oregon & California
Blanchard's map of the north western states : showing the counties, towns, railroads, stations, steamboat landing etc.
Image | 1867 | Historical Maps Online1 map, colored
Comitato promotore della ferrovia Santhià Locarno
Multi-Page Item | 22 pages | 1873 | Digital Rare Book Collection
Railway lines south from Chicago
Image | 1912 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Illinois Central and Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroads and Connections Showing Direct Lines to Chicago." From text: "Direct to Chicago via the Illinois Central R. R. Best of daily through train service from the South[.] As shown by the opposite map, the Illinois Central, in addition to its lines in other directions, has a particularly strong group of direct l...
Smaller freight tunnel
Image | 1906 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "A typical view in the smaller sized portion of the tunne.l"
Chicago general offices
Image | 1908 | Picture Chicago
Shop No. 2
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "N. E. Corner Shop No. 2."
Bolster department
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Bolster Dep't Hydraulic Press Multiple Punch". Photograph is included in section on company's Detroit facility.
The Green Diamond, Illinois Central Railroad
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Drawing, color
Union Depot, Bloomington, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A crowd mingles on the Union Depot platform on West Washington Street, Bloomington, Illinois.
Weston Depot
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The small wooden depot served the town of Weston, Illinois. Multiple railroad tracks can be seen in the foreground.
Granger Protest Meeting
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This sketch shows a protest meeting of Grangers shown in the History of the Grange Movement.
Train platform, Champaign, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Train platform, Champaign, March 25, 1983
Map, McLean County Railroads in 1900
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This is a map of McLean County railroads and grain elevators in 1900.
Merna Grain Elevator 1997
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This Merna grain elevator, photographed in 1997, is no longer in operation.
Map, McLean County Railroads in 1860
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This map shows the path of railroads through McLean County in 1860.
Rail Testing Lab
Audio | 1949 | WILL Sound Recordings (Digital Surrogates)

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