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The Chicago – New York Electric Air Line Railroad (CNY) was a proposed high-speed electric air-line railroad between Chicago and New York City. At roughly 750 miles (1,210 km) it would have been over 150 miles (240 km) shorter than the two primary steam railroads on that route, the New York Central Railroad and Pennsylvania Railroad. The promoters' vision proved wildly optimistic and, in the end, only a short interurban route in the vicinity of Gary, Indiana was built and operated. It was the most ambitious of several such proposals at the dawn of electric railroading, all of which ended in failure.

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  • The Chicago – New York Electric Air Line Railroad (CNY) was a proposed high-speed electric air-line railroad between Chicago and New York City. At roughly 750 miles (1,210 km) it would have been over 150 miles (240 km) shorter than the two primary steam railroads on that route, the New York Central Railroad and Pennsylvania Railroad. The promoters' vision proved wildly optimistic and, in the end, only a short interurban route in the vicinity of Gary, Indiana was built and operated. It was the most ambitious of several such proposals at the dawn of electric railroading, all of which ended in failure. The trade magazine Railway Age critiqued the project at the time it was announced in July 1906 and gave this damning judgment: "Speaking seriously, for the moment, about this fraudulent investment scheme one is in doubt whether to wonder most at the gigantic effrontery of the perpetrators, the gullibility of the poor dupes who will flood the mails with their subscriptions, or the carelessness if not cupidity of the newspaper publishers who seem to sanction the swindle by giving it publicity." (en)
  • シカゴ-ニューヨーク・エレクトリック・エアライン鉄道 (Chicago – New York Electric Air Line Railroad, CNY) とはアメリカで計画されたシカゴとニューヨークの間を結ぶ高速電気鉄道である。計画されていた約750マイル (1,210 km) の総延長は、二つの主な蒸気鉄道であるニューヨーク・セントラル鉄道やペンシルバニア鉄道よりも240km以上短い。発起人の見通しはとても楽観的であり、最終的にはインディアナ州ゲーリーの周辺に短いインターアーバンを建設、運営するのみであった。これは失敗に終わったいくつかの類似した計画の中でももっとも野心的なものであった。 (ja)
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  • シカゴ-ニューヨーク・エレクトリック・エアライン鉄道 (Chicago – New York Electric Air Line Railroad, CNY) とはアメリカで計画されたシカゴとニューヨークの間を結ぶ高速電気鉄道である。計画されていた約750マイル (1,210 km) の総延長は、二つの主な蒸気鉄道であるニューヨーク・セントラル鉄道やペンシルバニア鉄道よりも240km以上短い。発起人の見通しはとても楽観的であり、最終的にはインディアナ州ゲーリーの周辺に短いインターアーバンを建設、運営するのみであった。これは失敗に終わったいくつかの類似した計画の中でももっとも野心的なものであった。 (ja)
  • The Chicago – New York Electric Air Line Railroad (CNY) was a proposed high-speed electric air-line railroad between Chicago and New York City. At roughly 750 miles (1,210 km) it would have been over 150 miles (240 km) shorter than the two primary steam railroads on that route, the New York Central Railroad and Pennsylvania Railroad. The promoters' vision proved wildly optimistic and, in the end, only a short interurban route in the vicinity of Gary, Indiana was built and operated. It was the most ambitious of several such proposals at the dawn of electric railroading, all of which ended in failure. (en)
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  • Chicago – New York Electric Air Line Railroad (en)
  • シカゴ-ニューヨーク・エレクトリック・エアライン鉄道 (ja)
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