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Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway

defunct, American railway
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Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway

Summary

Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway is a railway company[1]. It draws 28 Wikipedia views per month (railway_company category, ranking #133 of 924).[2]

Key Facts

  • Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway is located in Chicago[3].
  • Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway is in the country of United States[4].
  • Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway's instance of is recorded as railway company[5].
  • Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway's headquarters location is recorded as Gary[6].
  • Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 158654217[7].
  • Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as no2007104214[8].
  • Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway's Commons category is recorded as Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway[9].
  • +1889-01-01T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway[10].
  • Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway was dissolved in +2013-01-01T00:00:00Z[11].
  • Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/04wsdr[12].
  • Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway's replaced by is recorded as Wisconsin Central Ltd.[13].
  • Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway's reporting mark is recorded as EJE[14].
  • Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway's date of official opening is recorded as +1889-01-01T00:00:00Z[15].
  • Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway's detail map is recorded as Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway system map (2008).svg[16].

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Founding

+1889-01-01T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway[10].

Operations

Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway's headquarters location is recorded as Gary[6].

Dissolution

Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway was dissolved in +2013-01-01T00:00:00Z[11].

Why It Matters

Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway draws 28 Wikipedia views per month (railway_company category, ranking #133 of 924).[2]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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