THE CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL RAILROAD

The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad completed its line to Rock Island in 1870, it then being operated as the Western Union Railroad, which had been organized in 1866 when a portion of the Racine & Mississippi Railway Company was purchased.

This latter company had been chartered in Wisconsin in 1854, and subsequently consolidated with the Northern Illinois Railroad Company. The stations on this line are: Cordova, Port Byron, Rapids City, Hampton, Watertown, East Moline, Moline and Rock Island.

This line became an integral part of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul system prior to 1880. Until 1902 the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific tracks from East Moline, formerly Port Byron Junction, to Rock Island were used, the trains coming into the Twentieth street station, but in that year the road arranged to use the tracks of the Davenport, Rock Island & Northwestern Railroad and their depot at the foot of Seventeenth street, Rock Island, which had been built in 1900, accommodates the business of the road at Rock Island. The stations at Moline and East Moline belonging to the Davenport, Rock Island & Northwestern Railroad are also used.

The freight and passenger business of the line at Rock Island has been in charge of S. B. Stoddard since 1900, he coming to it from the Rock Island system. At Moline, J. E. Land is the agent, and L. C. Lewis is the agent at East Moline. The same agents are also in charge of the business of the Davenport Rock Island & Northwestern Railroad at these three points.

 

 

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