Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Trains/ICC valuations/Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
http://books.google.com/books?id=FxAlAAAAMAAJ is the report submitted by the CB&Q.
- Turner Junction (West Chicago) to Aurora, 12.02 miles.
- Aurora Branch Railroad Company, September 2, 1850.
- Aurora to Mendota, 45.61 miles.
- Chicago and Aurora Railroad Company, October 20, 1853.
- Mendota to Galesburg, 79.45 miles.
- Central Military Tract Railroad Company, December 7, 1854.
- Peoria to East Burlington, 93.66 miles.
- Peoria and Oquawka Railroad Company, as follows:
- FROM TO COMPLETED
- Peoria Edward's Siding 1851 to 1855.
- Galesburg East Burlington March 17, 1855.
- Edward's Siding Knoxville April 3, 1855.
- Knoxville Galesburg February 1, 1857.
- Chicago River, near Sixteenth Street to connection, Illinois Central, 0.71 miles.
- St. Charles Air Line, May, 1856.
- Aurora to Chicago, via Naperville, 36.42 miles.
- The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Rail Road Company, May 20, 1864.
- Yates City to four miles south of Canton (St. David), 20.07 miles.
- The Jacksonville and Savanna Railroad Company, May 2, 1862.
- Four miles south of Canton (St. David) to Lewistown, 10.07 miles.
- The Peoria and Hannibal Railroad Company, June 1, 1862.
- TRACKAGE RIGHTS.
- Turner Junction (West Chicago) to Chicago, 30 miles over Galena & Chicago Union Railroad (now C. & N. W. Ry.) from October 21, 1850, to May 20, 1864.
- CONSTRUCTION
No records are available to show when construction of this line commenced. On January 19, 1855, twenty miles of the road from Quincy northeasterly had been completed; the road was completed to Galesburg and placed in operation January 31, 1856.
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