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Chicago and Plainfield Railroad Company
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Shortline Railway Guide, 5th Edition,
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Danford Bradley, The Story of the Santa Fe, 1920, pp.
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Railroad Company
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on February 24, 1859 to build a railroad from Chicago via
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