Missouri & Illinois Bridge & Belt

Company History: The M&IB&B was established in 1904 to take over the St. Clair Madison & St. Louis Belt Railroad. This 5 mile line owned the double track railroad bridge over the Mississippi River between Alton, Illinois and West Alton, Missouri. In the early years, the M&IB&B was jointly controlled by Big Four, Louisville & Nashville, Missouri Pacific, Rock Island, Katy, Chicago & Eastern Illinois, Vandalia (PRR), Wabash, Baltimore & Ohio and Chicago Peoria & St. Louis (later part of Illinois Terminal.) Ultimately, Chicago Burlington & Quincy would gain control of the line and the M&IB&B was finally merged by the CB&Q sometime between 1966 and 1969. Most of the traffic over the line consisted of run-throughs and transfers by the connecting Class One railroads although it appears M&IB&B did roster at least one locomotive at a time for its entire history. Their final locomotive, an SW1, came from CB&Q (formerly #9138) in 1962, only to return to the Q before the decade was out.

Successor/Parent History: The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (reporting mark CBQ) was a railroad that operated in the Midwestern United States. Commonly referred to as the Burlington or as the Q, the Burlington Route served a large area, including extensive trackage in the states of Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Wyoming, and also in New Mexico and Texas through subsidiaries Colorado and Southern Railway, Fort Worth and Denver Railway, and Burlington-Rock Island Railroad.[citation needed] Its primary connections included Chicago, Minneapolis-St. Paul, St. Louis, Kansas City and Denver. Because of this extensive trackage in the midwest and mountain states, the railroad used the advertising slogans "Everywhere West", "Way of the Zephyrs", and "The Way West". It merged into Burlington Northern in 1970.

In 1967, it reported 19,565 million net ton-miles of revenue freight and 723 million passenger miles; corresponding totals for C&S were 1,100 and 10 and for FW&D were 1,466 and 13. At the end of the year CB&Q operated 8,538 route-miles, C&S operated 708 and FW&D operated 1362. (These totals may or may not include the former Burlington-Rock Island Railroad.)

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