Evansville and Crawfordsville Railroad
The Evansville and Crawfordsville Railroad Company was Evansville, Indiana's first railroad company. It was first chartered in 1853 by , a lawyer in Terre Haute, Indiana. It was renamed Evansville and Terre Haute Railroad in 1877. It went on to be consolidated without railroads of the region into the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad.[1]
References[]
- ^ Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad Historical Society, Corporate History http://ceihs.org/corporate-history/
External links[]
- History[dead link]
Categories:
- Defunct Indiana railroads
- Transportation in Evansville, Indiana
- Predecessors of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad
- Railway companies established in 1853
- Railway companies disestablished in 1877
- 1853 establishments in Indiana
- United States railway company stubs
- Indiana transportation stubs