CLEVELAND CINCINNATI CHICAGO & St LOUIS RAILWAY LANTERN A&W CO. C. C. C&StLRy 1895

CLEVELAND CINCINNATI CHICAGO & St LOUIS. This Vintage piece of Railroad History, made by THE ADAMS AND WESTLAKE COMPANY for the CLEVELAND CINCINNATI CHICAGO & St LOUIS RAILWAY. This beautiful bellbottom lantern is marked THE ADAMS AND WESTLAKE COMPANY CHICAGO NEW YORK C. Patented MAY 28, 1895 last date JAN. The brass burner is marked THE P&A.

F uel fount and Burner are in good working condition. The Corning DEEP RED glass globe is embossed C.

Cnx PAT'D DEC 30, 1902 NO 717,501 has NO CRACKS some tiny flea chips around rims. Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. "Big Four RR" redirects here. For other rail, see Big Four (disambiguation).

Big Four (red) and New York Central system. The Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway, also known as the Big Four Railroad and commonly abbreviated CCC&StL, was a railroad.

Company in the Midwestern United States. It operated in affiliation with the New York Central. Its primary routes were in Illinois. Gold Bond of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway Company, issued 15. The railroad was formed on June 30, 1889, by the merger of the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis Railway. And the Indianapolis and St. The following year, the company gained control of the former Indiana, Bloomington and Western Railway. Through the foreclosed Ohio, Indiana and Western Railway and through an operating agreement with the Peoria and Eastern Railway. In 1906, the Big Four was acquired by the New York Central Railroad. Which operated it as a separate entity until around 1930. The Big Four's lines were later incorporated into Penn Central. In 1968 with the merger of New York Central and the Pennsylvania Railroad. In 1970, and in 1976 many of Big Four's lines were included in the government-sponsored Conrail. Conrail was privatized in 1987 and in 1997 was jointly acquired by CSX. The Chesapeake Building, former headquarters of the Big Four.

The railroad was headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. In the Chesapeake Building at 105 South Meridian Street. The building was constructed for the railroad in 1929 and was also known as the Big Four Building. In 1996, this multi-story structure became a Hampton Inn. From the bankrupt Penn Central in 1975.

The railroad operated a terminal. That included the largest roundhouse.

In use at that time between New York City. Conrail closed the Bellefontaine terminal in 1983, and its roundhouse was dismantled. Known as the Big Four Yards is located in Avon, Indiana. Along the line's tracks, now owned and operated by CSX. In 1895, the railroad acquired what became known as the Big Four Bridge.

Thereby giving it access to that city. Use of the bridge for railroad purposes ceased by 1968, and it sat abandoned until work began by 2006 to convert it to use by pedestrians and bicyclists.