was in Vigo and Sullivan Counties mostly coal lands and city lots in the Chauncy Rose addition in Terre Haute. In 1847, Rose was the principal founder of the Terre Haute & Richmond Railroad. He was elected President of the company at the shareholders meeting held in Greencastle, IN on May 10, 1848. It was renamed the Terre Haute & Indianapolis Railroad in 1865. He also aided others, including William D. Griswold and Josephus Collett, to establish other railroads. Railroad King Rose has been called the railroad king. He was an enthusiastic supporter of railroads. The tariff of 1842 had a significant impact on railroad building. The duty of $17/ton of hammered bar iron and $25/ton of rolled bar iron raised costs by 50 to 80%. The Walker tariff of 1846 reduced the duty to 30% and set off a railroad building boom in the 1850s. Rose went to the railroad convention at Indianapolis on May 12, 1847. It was attended by representatives from Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri. The convention recommended a railroad connecting St. Louis and Cincinnati. The Terre Haute & Richmond Railroad had been chartered by the Indiana state legislature on January 26, 1847. It was to construct a railroad across Indiana from Terre Haute to Richmond through Indianapolis roughly following the route of the National Road. At the time the only railroad in Indiana was the Madison and Indianapolis Railroad completed September, 1847. Rose's brother John helped raise funds for the railroad but most funds came from Boston from a man named Wells. Shareholders of the Terre Haute & Richmond Railroad met in Greencastle, Indiana, on May 10, 1848. Chauncey Rose was elected president. He was authorized to hire an engineer to survey the route from Terre Haute to Greencastle. Construction began Spring 1851 from both Terre Haute and Indianapolis. Rails were brought up the Wabash River by steamboat to Terre Haute. Rose bought four locomotives from Hinkley Locomotive Works, Boston Machine Works, for use in construction. They traveled by the New York Central precursor from Albany to Buffalo. To Toledo by water and by the Wabash & Erie Canal to Terre Haute. The engines for Indianapolis went from Defiance, Ohio, to Cincinnati probably by the Miami and Erie Canal, then to Madison, and up the incline to Indianapolis by railroad. The line was competed in March, 1852. Three locomotives were acquired from Taunton Locomotive Manufacturing