Company and passenger coaches from Columbus, OH. The trip from Terre Haute to Indianapolis was about four hours and charged $0.05/mi or $3.65 one way. Rose retired as President after a few years and moved to the Vincennes road and Rockville road. In 1851, the Terre Haute & Richmond was terminated in Indianapolis. The section from Indianapolis to Richmond was built as the Indiana Central Railroad. It was completed to the state line in October, 1853. The Terre Haute & Richmond changed its name to Terre Haute & Indianapolis Railroad. The Indianapolis & Bellefontaine Railroad or "Bee Line" was the first connection from Indianapolis to eastern railroads. It was chartered February 17, 1848, and completed to Union City in December, 1852. It became part of the Big Four and later the New York Central Railroad. Bee Line was formed officially on May 16, 1868; the Big Four in June, 1889. The Big Four is the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway. Rose was President of the Terre Haute & Indianapolis when the Union Railway was organized in Indianapolis (1848) and Union Depot was built, 1853. Rose is named on a plaque in Union Station as one of the men who put the Union Railway together. The TH&I was the most profitable of Indiana's railroads. The Vincennes railroad was originally chartered as the Evansville & Illinois to connect with the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad at Olney, later at Vincennes January 21, 1849. It was extended to Terre Haute, Rockville, and Crawfordsville. The section from Vincennes to Terre Haute, 58 miles built under WD Griswold and Chauncey Rose, was opened to through traffic on November 23, 1853 and completed in 1854. Rose donated his stock in the TH&I to the Evansville and Crawfordsville Railroad to finance its construction. The Ohio & Mississippi Railroad was chartered to build from Illinoistown (East St. Louis) across Illinois to Vincennes, Indiana, and then on to Cincinnati to connect with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. It was completed to Vincennes on July 5, 1855; to Cincinnati in April, 1857. The western portion of the Indianapolis railroad system should have been the Vandalia route from Terre Haute to Illinoistown, following the route of the National Road. The Illinois state legislature had a "home policy" that promoted Chicago railroads and sought to block St. Louis' access to eastern railroads. They refused to charter the Vandalia route, but instead