Old Plank Road Trail
Old Plank Road Trail may refer to: * Old Plank Road Trail (Wisconsin), a trail in Fond du Lac County and Sheboygan County in Wisconsin * Old Plank Road Trail (Illinois), a trail in Cook County and Will County in Illinois {{Disambiguation ...
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Old Plank Road Trail (Wisconsin)
The Old Plank Road Trail is a long public rail trail in Cook County and Will County within the U.S. state of Illinois. It stretches westward from Chicago Heights () to Joliet (), serving fast-growing suburbs such as Frankfort and New Lenox. History The Old Plank Road Trail occupies the western half of a plank road right-of-way acquired about 1850 and improved in 1855 into a railroad line, chartered as the Joliet and Northern Indiana Railroad. This nominally independent railroad line, which stretched from Joliet to Lake Station, Indiana, appears to have been affiliated with the Michigan Central Railroad from the start of its existence. Soon this section of roadbed was called the ''Joliet Cutoff'' and was operated by the Michigan Central as a spur line of its primary right-of-way from Indiana into downtown Chicago. In the early 1900s, railroad use of this roadbed began to decline. Trains were beginning to be partly replaced by rubber-tired vehicles that used new paved roads ...
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