Railroad: Indiana, Illinois and Iowa Railroad Company, The

This company was a Vanderbilt road with officers in New York and Cleveland. The Superintendent of Telegraph was based in Kankakee, Illinois. In Michigan it operated 25 miles from St. Joseph to the Indiana stater line, as well as a 1.6 mile branch from St. Joseph Junction to Benton Harbor.

St. Joseph South Bend & Southern → Indiana Illinois and Iowa Railroad → Michigan Central → Chicago, Indiana & Southern

From: St. Joseph, South Bend & Southern - 1900

Operated for: 5 Years.

Leased to: Michigan Central - 1905

Became: Chicago, Indiana & Southern - 1906

Reference: [MRRC]

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Time Line

1902. Road extends from St. Joseph south to the Indiana state line, with a branch track to Benton Harbor. 60 lb. steel rail. [MCR-1903]

1903. SNAPSHOT: The road employed 2 engineers, 2 firemen, 2 conductors and 3 other trainmen. It employed 4 section foremen and 10 other trackmen. It had 4 telegraph operators. The road had seven stations in Michigan. 3 locomotives, 2 passenger and express cars, 102 box cars and 15 platform cars. The five largest categories of freight movement by ton were: Lumber (18%), fruit and vegetables (17%), stone and sand (17%), miscellaneous commodities (11%) and Bituminous coal (8%).