A March 14, 1925, article in the Alton Evening Telegraph announced that a meeting of Alton sportsmen had been called for the ...

a new railroad emerged. A series of purchases of smaller carriers and consolidations that began in 1925 saw ITS merged with ...

CHICAGO, Feb. 24 -- The big freight steamer Amazonas of Duluth lies jammed across the Chicago River at the Pennsylvania Railroad bridge ... and Chicago and Alton -- was temporarily blocked.