RAILROAD OPERATING INFORMATION

CANADIAN NATIONAL

Heyworth Line

FORMERLY Illinois Central Railroad
(Amboy District)
CONSTRUCTED 1853-1855
LAST PASSENGER TRAIN: 1939
ABANDONED 1984 (Heyworth-Freeport)

Original Illinois Central main line. Milepost measurement is unusual in that it is distance from New Orleans. Even though this basis of measurement is not used south of Centralia.

Radio Frequency - 161.190 (AAR Channel 72)

Stations/Milepost Locations

Direction is northward from Clinton to Freeport
Distance is from New Orleans

773.3 Clinton
777.9 Wapella
784.4 Heyworth
795.8 Bloomington (NYC/NYC&SL crossing)
797.3 Normal Jct.
797.9 Normal (Alton crossing)
804.8 Hudson
813.8 El Paso (TP&W crossing)
823.5 Minonk Jct.
825.1 Minonk (AT&SF crossing)
835.6 Wenona (Alton crossing)
841.8 Lostant (NYC crossing)
846.8 Tonica
852.7 Oglesby
855.9 La Salle
859.9 Midway
864.2 Dimmick
871.7 Mendota (CB&Q crossing)
887.6 Amboy (CB&Q crossing)
893.3 Eldina
899.3 Dixon
906.7 Woosung
912.8 Polo
922.6 Forreston
930.9 Dunbar
934.2 East Junction (junction-Freeport District)

1 track, unsignaled.

CN Dispatcher Desk #2 located in Homewood.


INTERLOCKING TOWERS

Past and present towers and interlockings.