ABANDONED RAILROADS

MILWAUKEE ROAD

Dubuque & Illinois Division/Fourth Subdivision

FORMERLY Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul & Pacific Railroad (The Milwaukee Road)
CONSTRUCTED 1866 by Racine & Mississippi River Railroad (Savanna-Moline)
CONSTRUCTED 1902 (Ashdale Jct.-Ebner)
LAST PASSENGER TRAIN: late 1930's
ABANDONED 1934 (Ayres-Ebner)
ABANDONED 1952 (Ashdale Jct.-Ebner)
ABANDONED 1970's (Savanna-Albany)
ABANDONED 2007 (Albany-Moline)

The Ashdale cutoff extended from Ashdale Jct. to Ebner. Ashdale Jct. was between Lanark and Mount Carroll on the main line east of Savanna. The cutoff bypassed Savanna. And on this original line south and west of Savanna, the segment between Ayres and Ebner was replaced with trackage rights over the paralleling Burlington Route. Trains between Savanna and Kansas City continued until 1958, crossing the Mississippi River at Savanna.

Stations/Milepost Locations

Direction is westward from Savanna to Moline
Distance is from Ashdale Jct.

---- Savanna (CB&Q crossing)
---- Ayres (junction-CB&Q)
---- Thomson

0.0 Ashdale Jct.
16.0 Ebner (junction-CB&Q)
21.2 Fulton
22.8 C&NW Crossing
28.0 Albany
32.0 Ceffco
32.7 Nitrin
37.5 Cordova
42.9 Port Byron
51.8 East Moline

1 track, unsignaled.

LOST STATIONS

Known discontinued passenger railroad stations. Includes zoomable Google maps.

INTERLOCKING TOWERS

Past and present towers and interlockings.