Alton Railroad
Railroad in the midwestern United States / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Alton Railroad (reporting mark A) was the final name of a railroad linking Chicago to Alton, Illinois; St. Louis, Missouri; and Kansas City, Missouri. Its predecessor, the Chicago and Alton Railroad (reporting mark C&A),[1] was purchased by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 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. Jacob Bunn had been one of the founding reorganizers of the Chicago & Alton Railroad Company during the 1860s.
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Headquarters | Chicago, Illinois |
Reporting mark | A, C&A |
Locale | Chicago to St. Louis and Kansas City, Missouri |
Dates of operation | 1847 (Alton and Sangamon Railroad)ā1947 |
Successor | Gulf, Mobile and Ohio |
Technical | |
Track gauge | 4 ft 8+1ā2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge |
Main lines included Chicago to St. Louis and a branch to Kansas City.[2] The former is now part of Union Pacific, with Metra Heritage Corridor commuter rail service north of Joliet (owned by the Canadian National Railway but used by UP). Today, the Kansas City line is part of the CPKC system.