ABANDONED RAILROADS

ILLINOIS CENTRAL

Mattoon District

FORMERLY Illinois Central Railroad
CONSTRUCTED 1878 by Chicago & Illinois Southern Railway (Mattoon-Grayville)
CONSTRUCTED 1882 by Evansville & Peoria Railroad (Grayville-Evansville)
CONSTRUCTED 1881 by Evansville & New Harmony Railway (Stewartsville-New Harmony)
LAST PASSENGER TRAIN: early 1930's (Stewartsville-New Harmony)
LAST PASSENGER TRAIN: late 1930's (Mattoon-Evansville)
ABANDONED 1982 (Mattoon-Newton)
ABANDONED 1996 by short line (Newton-Browns)
ABANDONED 1999 by short line (Browns-Poseyville)
ABANDONED 1976 (Stewartsville-New Harmony)

Stations/Milepost Locations

Direction is southward from Mattoon to Evansville
Distance is from Peoria

119.2 Mattoon
125.6 Lerna
133.2 Bradbury
136.9 Toledo
139.9 Norveil
142.2 Greenup
143.5 Dees
148.3 Hidalgo
151.9 Rose Hill
155.4 Falmouth
160.1 Newton
164.9 Boos
170.5 West Liberty
171.9 Dundas
178.9 Olney
185.4 Calhoun
194.9 West Salem
200.1 Bone Gap
205.1 Browns
212.5 Grays
213.5 Grayville
220.0 Griffin
225.5 Stewartsville
228.5 Poseyville
239.1 Wilcox
244.5 Harwood
246.6 Evansville

0.0 Stewartsville
6.2 New Harmony

1 track, unsignaled.


LOST STATIONS

Known discontinued passenger railroad stations. Includes zoomable Google maps.

INTERLOCKING TOWERS

Past and present towers and interlockings.