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.

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.
 * CONSTRUCTION