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Kings Mill Creek P&E trestle
Description
Timber trestle built by the Big Four Railway, and used by the Peoria and Eastern, Penn Central and Conrail. Was abandoned in the mid 1980s after the line was truncated at Bloomington when a bridge in Mackinaw was washed out and Conrail opted to use Trackage Rights on the Norfolk Southern line to East Peoria.Facts
- Overview
- Abandoned Timber stringer bridge over Kings Mill Creek on Conrail ( Formerly Peoria & Eastern )
- Location
- Twin Grove, McLean County, Illinois
- Status
- Derelict/abandoned
- History
- Built as part of the Big Four line from Indianapolis to Peoria IL, this section of the Peoria and Eastern was abandoned in the mid 1980s by Conrail after a bridge in Mackinaw was destroyed by flooding.
- Railroads
- - Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway (CCC&StL)
- Conrail (CR)
- New York Central Railroad (NYC)
- Penn Central Railroad (PC)
- Peoria & Eastern Railroad (P&E)
- Design
- Timber stringer
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.50318, -89.09892 (decimal degrees)
40°30'11" N, 89°05'56" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/322152/4485724 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Normal West
- Inventory number
- BH 72460 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Comments
Kings Mill Creek P&E trestle
Ross,
Do you happen to have a photo of the arch over the old roadway? I find abandoned stone arches like that fascinating!
Kings Mill Creek P&E trestle
The stone arch over the roadway is still there. On the satellite imagery, you can see it to the left of the current roadway. The road was realigned and cut through the railroad right of way in the mid-90s.
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I recently explored near the stone archway. It still stands and Is very interesting!