Tower: (Satellite, it is gone. Railroad Ave. has been added to take advantage of the abandoned NKP.)
Duplicate alert: see also this.
There was also a NKP coaling tower and roundhouse.
The abandoned straight east/west route through town was the Big Four. The existing route was the NKP(Cloverleaf) and is now the Eastern Illinois.
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| Nikki Burgess posted An Eastern Illinois Railroad train trundles past the depot in Charleston, Illinois in July of 2014. This was once an NKP branch. Interestingly, the NKP freight house still stands nearby this location and in 2014 was still in use to store rail-delivered freight, in this case, lumber for the local yard. Pretty cool. Dave Hyer It was once the Nickel Plate's mainline to St. Louis, not a branch. Nikki Burgess Thank you for the clarification. Brian Carlson Sweet!!! EIRC doesn't get much press... Nikki Burgess My one big day on the line. Otherwise I've only got them dinking around at Neoga a couple of times. |
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| Paul Jevert posted Charleston IL. Mike Samuel posted a different exposure. A view from the southeast of the Depot in Charleston Illinois |
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| Jason Grothe commented on Mike's post Caught this last summer [2025] Jim Fleming: Did the Big 4 use this depot too? Paul Nichols: Jim Fleming no. It was to the west on the north side of the tracks I think. |
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| Andy Zukowski posted Clover Leaf & Big 4 R.R. Depot, in Charleston, Illinois. C1908 Photo by CU Williams Bill Edrington: This view looks west. The Clover Leaf passenger depot is at the left. The eastbound Big Four train in the distance is stopped at their passenger depot, and the Big Four freight house is at the right with a boxcar spotted next to it. Richard Fiedler shared |
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| Larry Candilas commented on Andy's post MP 319.0 Clover Leaf District crossing NYC-Big Four St Louis District MP 117.6 at CO Tower |
I noticed the wood grain elevator in the right background that has been expanded with metal bins. There is still an elevator at that location, but it has been significantly upgraded.
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| Ryan Ellington posted Charleston Illinois Aaron Grace shared Tower and one of the rail lines [NKP(Cloverleaf)] gone. |
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| Bob Kalal commented on Ryan's post |
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| EarthExplorer: Apr 20, 1956 @ 60,000; ARA550330050498 |
The Nickel Plate crossed the New York Central (Big Four), not the Pennsylvania.
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