Description: RailroadTreasures offers the following item: 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 All pictures are of the actual item. If this is a railroad item, this material is obsolete and no longer in use by the railroad. Please email with questions. Publishers of Train Shed Cyclopedias and Stephans Railroad Directories. Large inventory of railroad books and magazines. Thank you for buying from us. Shipping charges Postage rates quoted are for shipments to the US only. Ebay Global shipping charges are shown. These items are shipped to Kentucky and then ebay ships them to you. Ebay collects the shipping and customs / import fees. For direct postage rates to these countries, send me an email. Shipping to Canada and other countries varies by weight. Payment options Payment must be received within 10 days. Paypal is accepted. Terms and conditions All sales are final. Returns accepted if item is not as described. Contact us first. No warranty is stated or implied. Please e-mail us with any questions before bidding. Thanks for looking at our items.
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