ILLINOIS'S INTERLOCKINGS

BURLINGTON ROUTE

Galesburg & Quincy Subdivision

Now owned by BNSF.

CTC was installed 1955-1960, possibly enabling the elimination of some towers.


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SEMINARY STREET (Galesburg)
Tower listed with main line

WATERMAN (Galesburg)
Electric pneumatic interlocking installed 1931
Closed 1956

Tower at southwest end of Galesburg yard, connection with Graham Cut-Off connecting with Galesburg & Ottumwa Subdivision.

BUSHNELL
Electric interlocking installed 1938

Crossing with Keokuk Junction Railway (former Toledo Peoria & Western).

GOLDEN
Automatic interlocking installed 1928

Former crossing with Wabash Meredosia Branch, abandoned 1978.

QUINCY
Mechanical interlocking installed 1917

Bridge over Mississippi River.


EARLY CTC INSTALLATIONS

Quincy-Bushnell-Galesburg
Installed 1955, control machine in dispatcher's office in Galesburg
Control machine expanded 1960
Relocated 1960, control machine in dispatcher's office in Hannibal