ILLINOIS'S INTERLOCKINGS

ILLINOIS CENTRAL

Springfield District

Abandoned 1982.


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NORTH LITCHFIELD
Mechanical interlocking installed 1895
Replaced with automatic interlocking 1961

Former crossing with Wabash Brooklyn District.

LITCHFIELD
Mechanical interlocking installed 1893
Replaced with automatic interlocking early 1960's

Former crossing of the Illinois Central Springfield District, the paralleling Wabash Brooklyn District, and the paralleling Burlington Beardstown Subdivision, with the New York Central Old Line, abandoned 1965.

WINSTON (Litchfield)
Mechanical interlocking installed 1896
Replaced with automatic interlocking 1963

Former crossing of the Illinois Central Springfield District, the paralleling Wabash Brooklyn District, and the paralleling Chicago Peoria & St. Louis Railroad, with the Burlington Beardstown Subdivision. Only the former Wabash (now Norfolk Southern) and former Burlington (now BNSF) remain.

MOUNT OLIVE
Tower listed with Chicago & North Western

ALHAMBRA
Mechanical interlocking installed 1895
Closed around 1980

Former crossing with Nickel Plate Cloverleaf District.

GLEN (Glen Carbon)
Tower listed with Chicago & North Western