Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Riverside & Harlem Railway

 ILLINOIS Harlem The Riverside & Harlem Railroad Company to build a line in Cook County to connect the Illinois Central road and the Wisconsin Central giving the latter a more direct line into Chicago. capital $200,000 Incorporators John C Welling Lewis T Moore Wm C Bruen Joseph F Titus and Franklin Fairman

-Iron & Machinery World, Vol 89

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RIVERSIDE & HARLEM The Illinois Central Is seeking right of way through the property known as the Gage Farm in Cook County Illinois for the Riverside & Harlem road which it proposes to build from a connection with its present line to Waldheim to connect with the Wisconsin Central a distance of 4 1/4 miles. The Wisconsin Central uses the terminal facilities of the Illinois Central at Chicago and it is claimed the construction of the line referred to will shorten the route into the city some 8 miles.

- The Railway Age 5/17/1901

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