RAILROAD OPERATING INFORMATION

NORFOLK SOUTHERN

Springfield District

FORMERLY Wabash Railroad/Norfolk & Western Railway
(Decatur Division/10th District)
CONSTRUCTED 1856 by Great Western Railroad (Decatur-Springfield)
CONSTRUCTED 1842 by Northern Cross Railroad (Springfield-Jacksonville)
CONSTRUCTED 1838 by Northern Cross Railroad (Jacksonville-Bluffs)
CONSTRUCTED 1870 by Toledo Wabash & Western Railway (Bluffs-Hannibal)
LAST PASSENGER TRAIN: late 1940's
CTC installed 1944 (Decatur-Starne)
CTC installed 1962 (Starne-Iles)
REMOTE MANUAL BLOCK installed 1945 (Iles-Jacksonville)
ABS installed 1942-1945 (Jacksonville-East Hannibal)
CTC installed by 1970's (Iles-East Hannibal)

Radio Frequency - 160.440 (AAR Channel 22)

Stations/Milepost Locations

Direction is westward from Decatur to Hannibal
Distance is from Detroit

375.6 Decatur (WABIC) (CN crossing)
376.5 Mosser
379.9 Wyckles
382.8 Harristown
387.2 Niantic
389.1 Illiopolis
394.5 Dekalb
396.8 Lanesville
400.0 Buffalo
402.9 Dawson
407.3 Riverton
411.4 Starne (CN crossing)
412.9 IM Crossing
414.7 Shops
415.0 Springfield
416.5 Iles (junction-UP)
417.0 CN Connection
417.6 Hazel Dell
419.6 KC Junction
420.1 Sanger
423.0 Curran
427.3 Bates
430.6 New Berlin
433.2 Island Grove
437.4 Alexander
443.0 Arnold
447.4 Jacksonville (BNSF crossing)
447.9 Jacksonville
453.0 Markham
457.9 Chapin
462.1 Neelys
465.4 Bluffs
469.3 Naples
473.8 Valley City
478.7 Griggsville
482.1 Maysville
484.7 New Salem
488.9 Baylis
491.2 Hadley
498.9 Barry
499.9 Magner
502.9 Kinderhook
505.7 Hulls
514.1 East Hannibal
514.4 Hannibal Bridge
515.5 BNSF Connection
515.7 Hannibal
517.8 Outer Depot

1 track, CTC in use, controlled by Springfield District Dispatcher in Decatur.

INTERLOCKING TOWERS

Past and present towers and interlockings.