Vermont to Rushville CB&Q/BN branch
This is another branch i have plans to go exploring more into for right of way locations that might be able to still be seen after nearly 40 years since the tracks have been abandoned and pulled. I have photographed the location in Vermont where it split off from the main where it headed south towards Rushville. It was an odd little branch since it went to Rushville and stopped going no futher than that ( atleast to my knowledge). I will relay information I have seen and do know but as to what all this branched served in the years it operated I haven't really the foggiest idea.
The first train into Rushville, Illinois was on the Peoria & Hannibal Railroad on July 4, 1869. When the CB&Q took over the railroad it put an end to further expansion and the line remained a stub road into Rushville. The last train into Rushville ran on the evening of November 3, 1980. The depot was sold and torn out well before that back in 1970. The tracks to this line were removed around 1982.
I seen on website it noted that on Jan 9,1949 when Olin W. Clark came into Rushville as an agent for the CB&Q there was a round house,a turn table,ice house, sand house, and a huge well that furnished water for the Steam locomotives. To my knowledge this is all gone now. There is a railroad street in Rushville but no tracks remain. The round house and turn table is long gone as is the depot. The line was Vermont to Rushville was abandoned in 1980. Other sections of the BN line further to the north were abandoned as well within the next few years including Lombardville to Wyoming in 1981 and Buda to Lombardville in 1983. I imagine maybe the Yates City area up to Buda probably bit the dust within the 1970's or 1980's as well. The following pictures are at Vermont taken this year ( 2017) and the line literally ends not too far end. BNSF uses the small section to store a few cars and track equipment here now atleast by what I seen.
The first train into Rushville, Illinois was on the Peoria & Hannibal Railroad on July 4, 1869. When the CB&Q took over the railroad it put an end to further expansion and the line remained a stub road into Rushville. The last train into Rushville ran on the evening of November 3, 1980. The depot was sold and torn out well before that back in 1970. The tracks to this line were removed around 1982.
I seen on website it noted that on Jan 9,1949 when Olin W. Clark came into Rushville as an agent for the CB&Q there was a round house,a turn table,ice house, sand house, and a huge well that furnished water for the Steam locomotives. To my knowledge this is all gone now. There is a railroad street in Rushville but no tracks remain. The round house and turn table is long gone as is the depot. The line was Vermont to Rushville was abandoned in 1980. Other sections of the BN line further to the north were abandoned as well within the next few years including Lombardville to Wyoming in 1981 and Buda to Lombardville in 1983. I imagine maybe the Yates City area up to Buda probably bit the dust within the 1970's or 1980's as well. The following pictures are at Vermont taken this year ( 2017) and the line literally ends not too far end. BNSF uses the small section to store a few cars and track equipment here now atleast by what I seen.
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