RAILROAD OPERATING INFORMATION

NORFOLK SOUTHERN

Southern-West District

FORMERLY Southern Railway
CONSTRUCTED 1878-1881 by Louisville New Albany & St. Louis Railway (Princeton-Mt. Vernon)
CONSTRUCTED 1890 by Louisville Evansville & St. Louis Railroad (Mt. Vernon-St. Louis)
LAST PASSENGER TRAIN: 1952
ABS installed 1960's (Princeton-Mt. Carmel)
ABS installed late 1970's (Mt. Carmel-Coapman)

Radio Frequency - 160.950 (AAR Channel 56)
Train to Dispatcher - 160.830 (AAR Channel 48)
Dispatcher to Train - 160.245 (AAR Channel 09)

Stations/Milepost Locations

Direction is westward from Princeton to St. Louis
Distance is from St. Louis

ITALICS INDICATE ABANDONED SEGMENTS

162.8 Princeton
162.4 CSX Crossing
160.6 Beck
160.3 Lyle
152.2 Gibson
150.9 Mt. Carmel
150.1 CB Junction
148.9 Lee
140.7 Simpson
126.1 Golden Gate
111.7 Moon
95.9 Bluford
87.8 UP Crossing
86.1 Mt. Vernon
66.2 Central East
66.0 CN Crossing
64.8 BNSF Junction
60.6 Centralia West
58.4 Shattuc
34.5 New Baden
25.2 Scott Air Force Base
15.8 Belleville
8.3 Coapman
6.3 A&S Junction (A&S crossing)
4.9 East St. Louis
4.7 Southern Crossing (TRRA crossing)
4.6 VC Belt
3.6 Coapman West
--- Relay Depot

1 track, Track Warrants in use with automatic block signals, controlled by Southern-West District Dispatcher in Decatur. Trackage rights via BNSF CN Crossing to BNSF Junction.


INTERLOCKING TOWERS

Past and present towers and interlockings.