Abingdon was on the double track ABS until CTC installed and single tracked
in 1960
The depot was a brick structure located north of what is the down town area
the brick(Purlington)paved road down to it was still there years ago when I
lived west of town.
My back property line was the old M&StL ROW. The M&StL bridge shows as
being 55 foot Thru Plate Girder. Just south of there was a road bridge
with three 34 foot steel spans with one 24 foot and one 28 foot timber
approach. It would really groan when you took a big truck load of corn over
it. There were four other typical wood truss over head bridges some have
been closed or replaced.. There was a house track, a track to the pottery
and on the east side an elevator track to the Abingdon Elevator. I ground
and bought a lot of feed there but can not remember taking a photo of it.
Was a nice wood elevator with a block warehouse south of it.
sjh
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From: "Randy Doman" <bn1985@charter.net>
To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 10:20 PM
Subject: [BRHSlist] Abingdon
> Hi All,
> Question for all of you. Did the M&St.L cross the CB&Q at grade or did
> they go over the Q at Abingdon, Ill.? I'm modeling this main line and was
> just wondering what if the M&St.L was still around and what would it look
> like today.
> Thanks in advance,
> Randy Doman
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