RAILROAD OPERATING INFORMATION
BLOOMER LINE
Forrest to Gibson City
FORMERLY Wabash Railroad/Norfolk & Western Railway
(Decatur Division/7th District)
CONSTRUCTED 1874 by Chicago & Paducah Railroad
ABS installed 1937
LAST PASSENGER TRAIN: City Of Decatur/1971
ABANDONED 1991 (Forrest-Strawn)
REMAINDER DOWNGRADED
Former Wabash line connects with the other Bloomer line (former Illinois Central) at milepost 98.2, at what was formerly a crossing between those lines. Line abandoned north of that location.
Radio Frequency - 161.355 (AAR Channel 83)
Stations/Milepost Locations
Direction is southward from Forrest to Gibson City
Distance is from Chicago
ITALICS INDICATE ABANDONED SEGMENTS
92.4 Forrest (TP&W crossing)
98.2 IC Junction
99.4 Strawn
104.0 Sibley
108.9 Garber
112.1 Gibson City (junction-NS)
1 track, unsignaled.
Track diagram as the line existed in the 1980's.
Past and present towers and interlockings.