Chicago & Alton Railroad Lantern Adams & Westlake Co. The Adams C & A. R. R 1897

This RARE Vintage piece of Railroad History, made by THE ADAMS AND WESTLAKE COMPANY for the CHICAGO & ALTON RAILROAD. This lantern is marked THE ADAMS AND WESTLAKE COMPANY CHICAGO THE "ADAMS" C & A. 21, 1897 last date JAN. The brass burner is marked E. And the twist-off fount are in good working condition.

The Corning clear glass globe is embossed C. Cnx 0, No cracks, some small flea chips around rims. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Learn how and when to remove this template message. Chicago and Alton Railroad system as of 1918, including the. (Clover Leaf) in orange, parent of the Alton until 1921.

1847 Alton and Sangamon Railroad. A was the final name of a. In 1931 and was controlled until 1942 when the Alton was released to the courts. On May 31, 1947, the Alton Railroad was merged into the.

Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad. Had been one of the founding reorganizers of the Chicago & Alton Railroad Company during the 1860s.

Main lines included Chicago to St. Louis and a branch to Kansas City. The former is now part of. Today, the Kansas City line is part of the. The earliest ancestor to the Alton Railroad was the Alton and Sangamon Railroad, chartered February 27, 1847, in.

To the state capital at. The line was finished in 1852, and as the Chicago & Mississippi Railroad extended to.

Initially trains ran over the completed. Chicago and Rock Island Railroad.

Gold Bond of the Chicago and Alton Railroad Company, issued 1. The Joliet and Chicago Railroad was chartered February 15, 1855, and opened in 1856, continuing north and northeast from Joliet to downtown Chicago. It was leased by the Chicago & Mississippi, providing a continuous railroad from Alton to Chicago. In 1857 the C&M was reorganized as the St. Louis, Alton and Chicago Railroad, and another reorganization on October 10, 1862, produced the Chicago and Alton Railroad.

The C&A chartered the Alton and St. Louis Railroad to extend the line to. Opened in 1864, giving it a line from Chicago to East St. Same numbers for 1944 were 2596, 483, 959 and 1717.

By 1950, all of the Alton's steam locomotives were replaced by diesel locomotives.