ABANDONED RAILROADS

ROCK ISLAND

Subdivision 3

FORMERLY Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railroad (Rock Island Lines)
CONSTRUCTED 1872 by Peoria & Rock Island Railway
LAST PASSENGER TRAIN: 1941/motor train since early 1930's
ABANDONED 1941 (Orion Jct.-Milan)
ABANDONED 1963 (Alta-Toulon)
ABANDONED 1973 (Toulon-Lafayette)
ABANDONED 1982 (Lafayette-Orion Jct.)

With abandonment between Orion Jct. and Milan, segment between Milan and Rock Island became an industrial spur, and trains west of Orion Jct. instead used Burlington line north to Colona.

Stations/Milepost Locations

Direction is westward from Peoria to Rock Island
Distance is from Peoria

--- Peoria
1.2 Peoria Jct.
5.2 Peoria Heights
6.4 Keller
10.4 Alta
14.6 Dunlap
20.5 AT&SF Crossing
21.1 Princeville
25.0 Wady Petra
25.7 Stark
30.5 CB&Q Crossing
30.7 Wyoming
36.3 Toulon
41.9 Lafayette
47.3 Galva
47.9 CB&Q Crossing
48.1 CB&Q Crossing
51.7 Bishop Hill
57.0 Ulah
60.7 Cambridge
66.5 Osco
71.4 Orion
72.7 Orion Jct.
82.3 Colona
---- Milan
---- 20th St.
---- Rock Island

1 track, unsignaled.


LOST STATIONS

Known discontinued passenger railroad stations. Includes zoomable Google maps.