The Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad was a terminal railroad chartered on June 5, 1879, that opened its first line in 1880. Rather than running its own long-distance trains, it owned and operated Dearborn Station in Chicago and the approach trackage leading to it, functioning as a shared terminal facility for five owning railroads. It ran a commuter service between Chicago and Dolton until 1963 and kept its own certified railroad police force. Dearborn Station closed in 1971 when Amtrak consolidated Chicago passenger service at Union Station, and the company was gradually downgraded until it became a Union Pacific subsidiary in 1994, with its remaining trackage later divided among Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern, Chicago Rail Link and the Belt Railway of Chicago.
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