C&EI and Big Four shared the same tracks Southwest of Pana, IL.
So the depot used to stand in today's parking lot.
Bill Edrington commented on a post: "The line through Nokomis was built by the Terre Haute & Alton Railroad, which was completed in 1856. It eventually became part of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway (the “Big Four Route”) in 1889. The Big Four was a subsidiary of the New York Central System. In 1904, the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad was granted trackage rights on the line between Pana and St. Louis, and its passenger trains then began stopping at Nokomis also. The last C&EI passenger service at Nokomis ended in 1949. New York Central passenger service at Nokomis ended in the fall of 1959. The NYC merged with the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1968 to form the Penn Central, which entered bankruptcy in 1970. The line became the property of Conrail in 1976. In 1982 Conrail sold the portion of the line between Pana and Mitchell, IL to the Missouri Pacific (successor to the C&EI), which shortly afterwards was merged into the Union Pacific. The UP still uses the line today as part of its main line between Chicago and St. Louis."
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| Judy Goby Oxtoby posted Nokomis Union Station c 1910 Carol J Meier Ferguson: Depot should have been saved. The brick buildings in view on the right are still there. I can recall steam locomotives on that track as a small child, maybe 4-5 yrs old. My grandmother lived in a little house on Front St that faced the tracks, couple blocks northeast of the depot. Jacob Hortenstine shared Nokomis Illinois NYC C&EI union depot |
So the depot used to stand in today's parking lot.
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Bill Edrington commented on a post: "The line through Nokomis was built by the Terre Haute & Alton Railroad, which was completed in 1856. It eventually became part of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway (the “Big Four Route”) in 1889. The Big Four was a subsidiary of the New York Central System. In 1904, the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad was granted trackage rights on the line between Pana and St. Louis, and its passenger trains then began stopping at Nokomis also. The last C&EI passenger service at Nokomis ended in 1949. New York Central passenger service at Nokomis ended in the fall of 1959. The NYC merged with the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1968 to form the Penn Central, which entered bankruptcy in 1970. The line became the property of Conrail in 1976. In 1982 Conrail sold the portion of the line between Pana and Mitchell, IL to the Missouri Pacific (successor to the C&EI), which shortly afterwards was merged into the Union Pacific. The UP still uses the line today as part of its main line between Chicago and St. Louis."
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| Young Hines commented on a post |
A wood elevator, then a couple of rectangular concrete elevators and then various generations of jump-form silos.
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A grain truck was being loaded.
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Note the tall rectangular building near the left of the above photo. I've been trying to figure out what it was (and is).
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