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| Bill Edrington posted Montgomery County link Another view of the Big Four "Old Line" at Butler, looking west toward Litchfield. The older gentleman looks like he is about to cross what is now Illinois Route 127, while a girl stands on the depot platform. Photo courtesy of the Historical Society of Montgomery County. [There was considerable discussion about the unusual turnout in this photo. The current best theory is that it is a Wharton switch. I also learned that one-way low speed (OWLS) diamonds are now also called rollover diamonds. And that Roundout now has one. I assume that Metra is the high-speed side and EJ&E is the low-speed side. That gives me more motivation to travel that far north to see that junction. I wonder how many freight trains CN still runs that far north. I know they are pulling out of Waukegan] |
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| Bill Edrington posted Depot at Butler, Illinois on the Old Line in September 1910. The building at the left was a milk house from which milk cans were loaded onto the morning “accommodation” train out of Mattoon for delivery to the dairies in St. Louis. Prior to the opening of the Short Line cutoff between Hillsboro and Lenox in late 1904, this was the main line between Indianapolis and St. Louis. Richard Fiedler shared |
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| 1944/65 Mount Olive Quad @ 62,500 |
I think the building was torn down by 1939, but the platform still exists.
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| 1939 Aerial Photo from ILHAP |
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