Chicago Heights Terminal & Transfer

Company History: CHTT was established in 1898 by the Chicago Heights Land Association to be a neutral switching line for industries in the Chicago Heights area of Illinois. They operated (at the peak) 20 miles of track, seven of which were the mainline which forms an oval. Chicago & Eastern Illinois bought a controlling interest in the road in 1927 with the Kilgallen family retaining the remaining shares. Lettering locomotives for CHTT was discontinued after C&EI was acquired by Missouri Pacific in 1967. CHTT is still active, now under the Union Pacific flag and includes a Ford stamping plant among its customers. UP also still applies CHTT reporting marks to many freight cars depending on their lease/ownership arrangement.

Successor/Parent History: The Union Pacific Railroad (reporting mark UP) is a freight hauling railroad that operates 8,500 locomotives over 32,100 route-miles in 23 states west of Chicago, Illinois and New Orleans, Louisiana. The Union Pacific Railroad network is the largest in the United States and employs 42,600 people. It is also one of the world's largest transportation companies.

Union Pacific Railroad is the principal operating company of Union Pacific Corporation (NYSE: UNP); both are headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska. Over the years Union Pacific Corporation has grown by acquiring other railroads, notably the Missouri Pacific, Chicago & North Western, Western Pacific, Missouri-Kansas-Texas, and the Southern Pacific (including the Denver & Rio Grande Western).

Union Pacific Corporation's main competitor is the BNSF Railway, the nation's second largest freight railroad, which also primarily services the Continental U.S. west of the Mississippi River. Together, the two railroads have a duopoly on all transcontinental freight rail lines in the U.S.

Read more on Wikipedia and on Union Pacific official website.

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