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The railroad started in 1854 and paralleled the Cincinnati And Whitewater Canal . Its East St. Louis terminal near the Mississippi River was completed in 1857. It was a founding rail line of the Terminal Railroad Association Of St. Louis On September 17, 1861, during the American Civil War a train carrying union troops fell through a sabotaged bridge at Huron, Indiana injuring or killing 100. It merged in 1893 with the Baltimore And Ohio Railroad (which in turn became part of the CSX railroad). REFERENCES |
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