Abandoned Railroad photograph collection
When I'm not railfanning or looking for old locations of area coal mines I sometimes snap photographs of old abandoned Railroad tracks and some in bad shape or rarely used. So here is the collection I have. 1). Morton, Illinois ( Old AT&SF line that ran from Pekin to here then further. Line abandoned in the early to mid 1980's. A portion still remains and owned by TP&W but a good portion is gone). 2). Alley Tracks, Peoria, Illinois. Abandoned and ceased activity in the 1980's the alley tracks in Peoria was once operated by CB&Q then Burlington Northern. 3). Astoria, Illinois. The CB&Q later BN had tracks around the Astoria area. The original CB&Q mainline to Beardstown went to just on the southside of Astoria then to the South to Astoria going to Bader, Browning then on to Galesburg. Most of the line was abandoned in the 1960's and the current mainline to Beardstown to the west took over...