CHICAGO, BURLINGTON AND QUINCY RAILROAD, popularly known as the 'Burlington Route,* a system operating in Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, IovOa, Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, South Dakota and Montana. The nucleus of the sys tem originated in the Aurora Branch Railroad Company, chartered 12 Feb. 1849, a name changed to Chicago and Aurora Railroad Com pany, 22 June 1852, and to thepresent corpo rate title 14 Feb. 1855. The earliest construct ed portions of the system were the section of the main line from Chicago to Mendota and the branch from Aurora to West Chicago. By construction, consolidation and purchase, the system has enlarged to its present size. The system was leased 1 Oct. 1901 to the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railway Company for 99 years and operated by the railway com pany until 1 July 1907, when the lease was canceled and the railroad resumed controt and operation.
length of road operated and controlled 30 June 1915 was 9,365.94 miles; of this mileage 9,008.41 miles were owned abso by the company. The mileage is lo cated as follows: 1,671.58 miles in Illinois; 222.49 miles in Wisconsin; 23.61 miles in Min nesota; 1,365.12 miles in Iowa; 1,122,30 miles in Missouri; 2,850.34 miles in Nebraska; 259.32 miles in Kansas; 394.36 miles in Colorado; 134.38 miles in Montana; 279.95 miles in South Dakota; and 684.96 miles in Wyoming. The roads east of the Missouri River total 4,387.94 miles, the roads west of the Missouri River 4,620.47 miles. The principal sections are:
Main line, Chicago, Ill., to Denver, Colo., 1,077.01 miles; Aurora, Ill., to Minneapolis, Minn., 385.35 miles; Galesburg, Ill., and Saint Louis, Mo., to Kansas City and Saint Joseph, Mo., 486.14 miles; Lincoln, Neb., to Billings, Mont., 836.03 miles and other divisions and branches 6,223.88 miles, all operated as the Chi cago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. The Company also controls, through ownership of securities, the Quincy, Omaha and Kansas City Railroad 261.62 miles and the Colorado and Southern Railway 1,968.05 miles, and has a total of 357.53 miles of leased trackage rights.
equipment of the com pany, 30 June 1915 comprised 1,773 locomotives, 1,285 passenger cars, 65,843 freight cars, 5,649 miscellaneous cars and 41 units of floating equipment; total of cars, locomotives, etc., 74, 591. For year ended 30 June 1915: total operat ing revenue, $91,125,060.67; operating expenses, $60,441,367.04; net operating revenue, $30,683, 693.63; deductions from net operating revenues, $4,105,665.23; operating income, $26,578,02&40; other income, $1,224,069.41; gross corporate in come, $27,802,097.81; deductions from gross cor porate income, $22,720,982.46; surplus for the year $5,081,115.35; 22,708,392 passengers and 31,7%791 tons of freight carried; the capital stock of the Company was $110,839,100; the funded debt $181,690.000.