Ancona Station (Illinois)
This article is about the former Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe station in Illinois. For the railway station in Italy, see Ancona railway station.
Ancona | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Former AT&SF passenger rail station | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Ancona, Illinois | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 41°02′20″N 88°52′21″W / 41.038999°N 88.872421°WCoordinates: 41°02′20″N 88°52′21″W / 41.038999°N 88.872421°W | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | tracks owned by BNSF Railway | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Main Line and Pekin Branch | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | at-grade | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ancona Station (also known as Ancona Junction) was an Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway station in the unincorporated community of Ancona, Illinois. It a major junction station on the railway since it was point was where the Pekin Branch (also known as the Pekin District) split from the main line.[1] Ancona was the eastern point where the Santa Fe decided to build track west to existing track in Kansas City in 1889.[2] (It used former Chicago and St. Louis Railway trackage to reach Chicago)[2][3] Freight trains still pass on the double-tracked main line and the location provides a good location for railfans. The branch line to Pekin was abandoned in 1982[4] although the former right-of-way can still easily be seen.
References
- ↑ Existing Santa Fe stations in Illinois. Retrieved February 27, 2011
- 1 2 Solomon, Brian (2003). "Santa Fe History". Santa Fe Railway. Motorbooks International. p. 21. ISBN 0-7603-1072-6.
- ↑ Marshall, James. Santa Fe, The Railway that Built an Empire. New York City: Random House, Inc. p. 208.
...buy the Chicago & St. Louis, from Chicago to Pekin, Illinois, and use about 100 miles of it, from Chicago to Ancona, as part of the new line.
- ↑ abandoned rails.com. Retrieved February 17, 2011
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