ILLINOIS'S INTERLOCKINGS

PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD

St. Louis Division

Now owned by CSX.


FARRINGTON (Terre Haute)
Mechanical interlocking installed 1899
Closed 1940, replaced with CTC installation at Terre Haute Union Station

Former junction with Peoria Branch, not included in Conrail 1976.

MARSHALL JCT.
Tower listed with New York Central

CASEY
Mechanical interlocking installed 1899
Closed 1940, replaced with CTC installation at Terre Haute Union Station

Interlocking at east end of a double track segment, and former crossing with Baltimore & Ohio Ohio River Division.

GREENUP
Mechanical interlocking installed 1896

Former crossing with Illinois Central Mattoon District, prior to elevation of Pennsylvania Railroad line.

EFFINGHAM
Mechanical interlocking installed 1900
Interlocking rebuilt 1911
Electric interlocking installed
Closed 1980's, remotely controlled by Illinois Central CTC dispatcher

Crossing with Illinois Central main line.

WEST EFFINGHAM
Mechanical interlocking installed around 1910
Closed 1942

West end of yard.

ALTAMONT
Mechanical interlocking installed 1900
Replaced with automatic interlocking 1958

Former crossing with Baltimore & Ohio Springfield Subdivision, abandoned 1985.

ST. ELMO
Tower listed with Chicago & Eastern Illinois

BROWNSTOWN
Mechanical interlocking installed 1926
Closed by 1940's, replaced with CTC installation at Vandalia tower

Interlocking at west end of a double track segment.

VANDALIA
Mechanical interlocking installed 1899
Replaced with automatic interlocking 1965

Former crossing with Illinois Central Clinton District, abandoned 1980's.

SMITHBORO
Mechanical interlocking installed 1899
Closed 1986, remotely controlled by CTC dispatcher

Crossing with Burlington Beardstown Subdivision.

PIERRON
Mechanical interlocking installed 1926
Closed 1942, replaced with CTC installation at Smithboro tower

Interlocking at east end of a double track segment.

COLLINSVILLE
Mechanical interlocking installed 1904

Little is known about this interlocking.

HN CABIN (A&S Crossing)
Tower listed with Baltimore & Ohio

WILLOWS
Electric interlocking installed 1901
Closed September 10, 2018

Crossing of Pennsylvania Railroad St. Louis Division and paralleling Baltimore & Ohio St. Louis Division, with Terminal Railroad Association Illinois Transfer Subdivision and paralleling Southern Railway V&C Line.

EADS
Non interlocked crossing

Former crossing with Baltimore & Ohio Freight House Line.

Q TOWER (East St. Louis)
Tower listed with Terminal Railroad Association


EARLY CTC INSTALLATIONS

Terre Haute-Casey
Installed 1940, control machine in dispatcher's office at Terre Haute Union Station

Control machine actually operated by a separate leverman, due to Pennsylvania Railroad union agreement prohibiting a dispatcher from operating a control machine.

Brownstown-Vandalia
Installed by 1940's, control machine at Vandalia tower

Vandalia-Smithboro
Installed 1942, control machine at Smithboro tower