ABANDONED RAILROADS
CHICAGO & EASTERN ILLINOIS
Chicago Attica & Southern Railroad
FORMERLY Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad
CONSTRUCTED 1874 by Indiana North & South Railroad (Attica-Veedersburg)
CONSTRUCTED 1882 by Chicago Block Coal Railroad (Veedersburg-Yeddo)
CONSTRUCTED 1883 by Chicago & Great Southern Railway (Fair Oaks-Attica)
CONSTRUCTED 1885 by Chicago & Great Southern Railway (Yeddo-West Melcher)
CONSTRUCTED 1887 by Chicago & Great Southern Railway (La Crosse-Fair Oaks)
LAST PASSENGER TRAIN: early 1920's
ABANDONED 1943 (La Crosse-Percy Jct./Veedersburg-West Melcher)
ABANDONED 1946 (Percy Jct.-Veedersburg)
Stations/Milepost Locations
Direction is southward from La Crosse to West Melcher
Distance is from La Crosse
0.0 La Crosse
3.4 Wilders
8.2 Burkes
9.8 Dunns
13.3 Wheatfield
17.0 Zadoc
18.8 Kniman
21.6 Virgie
24.2 Moffitts
26.6 Fair Oaks
31.2 Kents
35.6 Mt. Ayr
39.5 Julian
41.5 Foresman
46.0 Percy Jct.
48.5 Goodland
53.7 Wadena
35.7 Lochiel
58.7 Barce
61.3 Swanington
66.2 Oxford
71.2 Pine Village
74.2 Chatterton
76.6 Winthrop
79.8 Kickapoo
81.0 Mudlavia
82.9 Attica
83.5 Attica Shops
87.0 Rob Roy
89.3 Aylsworth
91.6 Stone Bluff
95.7 Veedersburg
102.8 Yeddo
106.0 Kingman
110.0 Tangier
116.1 West Union
119.6 West Melcher
1 track, unsignaled.
Known discontinued passenger railroad stations. Includes zoomable Google maps.
Past and present towers and interlockings.