The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, the
official name of the Burlington Route, started
Aurora, Illinois. The Aurora Branch Railroad was
laid with secondhand strap iron spiked to 12
miles of wooden rails. On September 2, 1850,
the first train chugged its uncertain way over
the from Batavia, Illinois, north to Turner first
train chugged its uncertain way over Junction,
and then eastward to Chicago over the tracks
of the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad. The
locomotive and cars were borrowed from the
Galena line as their own equipment had not yet
arrived. This allowed the Aurora Branch to be
the second railroad to serve Chicago.
Source: Burlington Route Historical Society
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