Railroad abandonment records. 1972-1996.
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Burlington Northern Railroad Company
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Burlington Northern Railroad (BN) was created on March 2, 1970, by the merger of four primary railroads: Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Co. (CB&Q); Northern Pacific Railway Co. (NP); Great Northern Railway Co. (GN); and the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway Co. (SP&S). From the description of Burlington Northern Railroad Company records [manuscript], circa 1920-1960. (Oregon Historical Society Research Library). WorldCat record id: 756206544 From the g...
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United States. Interstate Commerce Commission
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Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad Company
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Minnesota. Department of Public Service
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Minnesota. Attorney General
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These cases had their genesis in a bill of complaint filed with the United States Supreme Court by the state of Wisconsin in 1922, seeking an injunction to restrain the state of Illinois and the Sanitary District of Chicago from diverting water from Lake Michigan through the Chicago River into the Des Plaines River and ultimately the Mississippi. This linkage, completed in 1900, not only facilitated navigation between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River waterways system, but a...
Minnesota. Department of Transportation.
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Soo Line Railroad Company
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The Soo Line Railroad Company is the principal subsidiary of Soo Line Corp., a holding company involved in transportation and related real estate. Canadian Pacific Limited, a transportation, resource development, and manufacturing company with headquarters in Montreal, Quebec, in 1990 owned virtually 100% of the common stock of Soo Line Corp. Canadian Pacific interests have controlled the Soo Line and its predecessors since 1888. The M.St.P.&S.S.M. was popularly known as the "So...
Chicago and Northwestern Transportation Company.
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