Terry Abrisz had some help Saturday morning as he traced railroad history in Burlington, Lee County and Illinois during the ...
When the long-anticipated "Hill Lines" merger finally created the Burlington Northern on March 2 ... is BN's short stint as an intercity passenger railroad - only 14 months.
In 1948, the Federation for Railway Progress awarded the Burlington the Passenger Service Award for 1947. By the 1950s, the passenger rail business was suffering an irreversible decline.