Indianapolis, Cincinnati And Lafayette Railroad

The Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis and Chicago Railway (CISL&C) was a railroad in the

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. The CISL&C resulted from the 1880 corporate restructuring of the bankrupt Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Lafayette Railroad (IC&L). The CISL&C operated a railroad line from

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to Lafayette, being the result of an 1867 merger of the Indianapolis and Cincinnati Railroad (I&C), the Lafayette and Indianapolis Railroad (L&I), and the Cincinnati and Indiana Railroad (C&I). The three predecessor companies had been founded in 1850, 1846, and 1861, respectively. The CISL&C controlled and operated numerous subsidiary railway companies operating smaller branch lines. These included: * Cincinnati, Lafayette and Chicago Railroad, which ran from

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, to Kenkakee, Illinois. Most notably, through service (1872) with the

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, eventually became the only

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service that utilized

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. (Amtrak moved to

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in 1972) * Columbus, Hope and Greensburg Railroad from

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, to

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* Harrison Branch Railroad In 1889, the railway merged with the

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and the Indianapolis and St Louis Railway to form the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway, also known collectively as the Big Four. {{DEFAULTSORT:Cincinnati Indianapolis Saint Louis Chicago Railway Companies affiliated with the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway Defunct Illinois railroads Defunct Indiana railroads Defunct Ohio railroads Predecessors of the New York Central Railroad Railway companies established in 1880 Railway companies disestablished in 1889 American companies established in 1880 Rail transportation in Cleveland