This town is on the C&EI route that goes to the Thebes Bridge across the Mississippi River.
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| Andy Zukowski posted Missouri Pacific/ICG Crossing, Tamms, Illinois This is a Wally Mattes photo taken in May of 1975, looking northeast along the Морас. A set of ICG power sits in the interchange track. Brad Craig: The ICG, ex-GM&O through Tamms was abandoned in the 1980s and the MP-ex C&EI branch through Tamms over to Thebes about the same time. I think both tracks were jerked up in the 1990s or early 2000s. GM&O also had a plain wooden depot at Tamms. Seen pictures of it. But, don't remember ever seeing it. The C&EI depot was in bad shape when the town got it. They've done a nice job restoring and preserving it. It's worth a side trip over to see and photograph it. Not much going on around there since the State of Illinois closed the super-maximum security prison there several years ago. Richard Fiedler shared Stephen N. Brannon: I remember when it was C&EI and GM&O at Tamms. |
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| Larry Candilas commented on Andy's post MP 512.3 - GM&O Murphysboro District. Depot in 1986 after the ICG took over |
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| Driving Backroads posted Freight wagon at Tamms Depot, Alexander County, IL. The depot was built on Front Street, serving the Chicago & Eastern Illinois and Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroads in1899. The depot closed in 1955 after passenger service was discontinued. It was restored in 1986 and placed on the National Register of Historic Places. Driving Backroads. Richard Fiedler shared |
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| Jesse Kerr posted Need some assistance here folks. This is the historic Depot in Tamms Illinois. It use to be the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad Station. The Village bought the building in 1982 when the Railroad was going to demo it. The village restored the depot using donations from local residents, completing the restoration in 1986. The Village is looking for help on restoration. Any info out there on grants? Sponsorships? Charities? Ken Morrison: lived up the street from it for a while. Also the GM&O station-unique in that it's bent in the middle to accommodate both railroads. in the late 70s, ICG was using the GM&O yard for car storage, but the C&EI (MP) tracks would see a visitor to the silica mill in town Sunday evenings...[There are also some comments about who to contact for funding help.] |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Ken's comment 1967 Tamms and 1978 Mill Creek Quadrangles @ 1:24,000 |
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So did they place an IC Caboose on CE&I tracks to honor both railroads that used the depot? Is the caboose actually an ICG caboose of GM&O origins to correctly honor the other route?
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The tree on the right hides the bend in the depot.
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Joe Crane posted five photos with the comment: "TAMMS, ILLINOIS was once an important location on the GM&O. It was here the long trains coming out of the flat Mississippi Delta were broken up in a sizable yard into smaller trains for the charge northward up steep Alto Pass Hill and onto East St. Louis. The C&EI crossed the GM&O and that’s where the railroads shared a depot. The depot now serves as the Village Hall. All that’s left of trackage is what little you see from the C&EI line crossing the diamond."
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| Driving Backroads posted A recent shot of the old Tamms, IL depot, built in 1899. It was restored in 1986 and is on the National Register of Historic Places. Kolten Mulligan shared |
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| Chad McCain posted Tamms, IL. Rail depot built in 1899. Only a small segment of the cross track remains from the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad and the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad. Joe Crain: https://www.semissourian.com/blogs/pavementends/entry/59211 [This has a couple of photos of this depot.] |
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| Steven Hooker posted Here is a photo of the Tamms Depot in 2013... |
Paul Hieber posted five photos with the comment: "Driving the backroads I saw a sign for historic depot. coming up on it I wondered why the depot was bent. walking around revealed.. a diamond! both lines abandoned. Illinois Central, Tamms, IL"
Louis A Webb: It’s actually Gm&o and c&ei.: It’s actually Gm&o and c&ei.
John Rose: The caboose is a Pennsylvania Railroad class N8.
Gary Sprandel: John Rose might not be the same one but IC had at least one N8. Saw it in their yard in Rockford Illinois in the mid 80s.
John Stuart Hale: Gary Sprandel, yes, the IC picked a few Pennsylvania cabooses up.
[The city owns the caboose.]
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| Aaron Qualls posted The ex-C&EI depot in Tamms. |
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| Aaron Qualls posted ICG 199102, ex-PRR N8 478114. |
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