The Big Four used to have the Kankakee Belt north of here and the Egyptian Line south of here and the Peoria & Eastern east and west of here. The north/south routes shared a route through town with the east/west route. Most of these routes no longer exist.
According to a Jun 2023 street view, the yard tower is gone. Although it looks like the yard was empty by 2007. Conrail abandoned the P&E west of this yard to Champaign. This P&E remnant is now a NS industrial spur off their Wabash route.
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| Street View, Sep 2007 |
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| Thomas Dyrek posted Randy Grindley I lived near Hillery Yard and was there almost daily from 1977 until moving to Urbana in 1990. The new yard office opened in early 1981 and the yard was rebuilt around 1987 to handle anticipated Diamond Star traffic from Normal. A lot of traffic moved through the yard. Very sad watching it decline in the early 1990s. With GM's closing the Tilton foundry and the abandonment of the P&E west of Hillery was a death sentence for the yard with CSX closing several years after the Hillery crew worked the yard before all operations were moved to Brewer Yard. |
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| 1950 Danville NW and 1951 Danville NE Quads @ 24,000 |
According to a satellite image, the tracks still exist in this yard. I'm surprised that NS doesn't use the tracks for storage.
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