ABANDONED RAILROADS
ILLINOIS CENTRAL
St. Louis District/Texas Line
FORMERLY Illinois Central Railroad
CONSTRUCTED 1881 by St. Louis Central Railway (Pinckneyville-Texas)
CONSTRUCTED 1868 by Mount Carbon Coal Railroad (Texas-Carbondale)
ABS installed 1913
LAST PASSENGER TRAIN: 1966
ABANDONED by 1980's
Stations/Milepost Locations
Direction is southward from Pinckneyville to Carbondale
Distance is from St. Louis
61.1 Pinckneyville
66.3 Pyatts
69.6 Matthews Jct.
73.6 Vergennes
84.0 Murphysboro
85.0 Texas
92.1 Carbondale
1 track, timetable and train order operation in use with automatic block signals.
Murphysboro District
FORMERLY Illinois Central Railroad
CONSTRUCTED 1868 by Mount Carbon Coal Railroad (Texas-Grand Tower)
CONSTRUCTED 1889 by Grand Tower & Cape Girardeau Railroad (Grand Tower-Mounds)
LAST PASSENGER TRAIN: early 1940's/mixed train
ABANDONED by 1980's
Stations/Milepost Locations
Direction is southward from Texas to Mounds
Distance is from Texas
0.0 Texas
1.6 Carbon Lake
8.4 Sand Ridge
9.0 Sand Ridge Jct.
11.7 Gorham
15.8 Cipsco Park
17.6 Grand Tower
23.2 Aldridge
27.4 Wolf Lake
32.0 Ware
41.7 McClure
46.6 Gale
57.7 Olive Branch
63.6 Cache
67.9 Mounds
1 track, unsignaled.
Murphysboro District/Sand Ridge Line
FORMERLY Illinois Central Railroad
CONSTRUCTED 1902-1904
PASSENGER SERVICE: limited history
ABANDONED by 1940's
Stations/Milepost Locations
Direction is southward from Matthews Jct. to Sand Ridge Jct.
Distance is from St. Louis
69.6 Matthews Jct.
76.2 Oraville
87.0 Sand Ridge Jct.
1 track, unsignaled.
Known discontinued passenger railroad stations. Includes zoomable Google maps.
Past and present towers and interlockings.