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CONNECTIONS

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Over the years, Blackhawk has worked with and supported other groups to help us meet our railroad preservation goals.

Just as a terminal railroad provides numerous connections between other railroads, we present this list of organizations and places of interest in our service area.

​Using our historic Joliet/Lockport, Illinois base as a center-point, we have selected attractions fall within a 300 mile radius of our home, easily within a day's travel there and back.  A few can be reached by public transportation.

Railroad History Partners

Links to the numerous organizations and groups chronicling our area's fascinating railroad history.
Railroad History

Local Attractions

Local parks, restaurants, lodging, model and garden railroads and other attractions with a railroad theme.
Local RailROAD
​Attractions

Museums & Tourist Railroads

Steam Locomotives

Links to information the many different railroad museums located throughout the Midwest.
A guide to the steam locomotives in our area not in railroad museums, both operating and being restored.
Musueums & Tourist Railroads
Steam Locomotives (Operating or Being Restored)

Today's Railroads

Information about the freight and passenger railroads currently serving Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana.​
Today's Railroads

Santa Trains

Our listing of Santa, Christmas, North Pole  Holiday trains in and around the Midwest. 
Santa Trains

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  • Home
  • About Us
    • Join or Renew
    • Meetings
    • Indiana Swap Meet
    • "Spike and Tie" Newsletter
    • 50th Anniversary Gallery
  • Schedule
  • Projects
    • Museums
    • Depots >
      • Symerton
      • Lockport
      • Joliet >
        • History
        • Passenger
        • Railfan
        • UD Tower
    • Community
    • Publications and Documents >
      • EJ&E Documents
    • Equipment
    • Chicago Railroad History Month
    • Historic Railroads of Will County >
      • Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
      • Chicago & Alton
      • Chicago & Eastern Illinois
      • Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
      • Elgin, Joliet & Eastern
      • Illinois Central
      • Michigan Central
      • The Milwaukee Road (CM&G/CTH&SE)
      • Wabash
      • Shortlines and Industrials
      • Proposed Railroads
      • Interurban Railroads
  • Connections
    • Partners
    • Local Railroad Attractions
    • Local Museums and Tourist Railroads
    • Steam Locomotives (Operating or Being Restored)
    • Today's Railroads
    • Midwest "Santa Trains"
  • Store