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This is a town that used to be served by three railroads, but now it has none. What is interesting is that it appears that two of the abandonments were rather recent: UP and NS. One of the advantages of recent abandonments is that rails-to-trails has become popular and allows one to see were the tracks were. Since the Linchfield & Madison and NKP paralleled each other through town, the Madison County Transit Nickel Plate Trail seems to alternate between the two right-of-ways (RoW). The L&M was north of the NKP. The IC came in from the East and crossed the NKP to merge with the L&M for access to the St. Louis area. The IC RoW is now the Glen Carbon Heritage Bike Trail.
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| Mitch Mitchell posted |
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| 1941 Aerial Photo from ILHAP |
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| 1941 Aerial Photo from ILHAP |
Mike Sypult posted two photos with the comment: "Glen Carbon, Illinois - credit https://madison-historical.siue.edu"
Mike Sypult Illinois interlocking tower number 37, built in 1891, demolished in 1993.
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| Mike Sypult posted Glen Tower - crossing of the IC with the C&NW and NKP. Torn down in 1983. Photo credit to https://madison-historical.siue.edu |
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| Michael C Kelly posted Here's a shot from June 66 by my dad, Michael J Kelly. View is looking across the C&NW, then the NKP as the IC curves off to the upper right towards Springfield & Chicago. The IC joins the C&NW lower right, heading with the NKP in the background towards Granite City. Edwardsville & beyond is to the left. |
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| Steve Grigg commented on a posting For you NKP modelers & historians, this is one instance where the company track chart is wrong. It shows the tower where the ICRR ties into the L&M RR. The tower was actually in the southeast quadrant of the NKP-ICRR crossing as clearly seen in this photo. Just a little trivia....... |
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| Dale Forguson posted Litchfield and Madison, IC, NKP in Glen Carbon IL. Christopher Severin: L&M and Nickle Plate went left and IC went right of tower. Richard Fiedler shared |
Worked with all 3 shifts of oprs at Glen starting back in 1969. I was a train dispatcher for the old Illinois Central RR for nearly 25yrs. Worked the Springfield Dist most of the time. Timetable and train orders. Before that I was a telegraph opr for several yrs.
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