Coal City Station

Coal City Former AT&SF passenger rail station
Station statistics
Address	Coal City, Illinois
Structure	at-grade
Platforms	1 side platform
Tracks	2
Other information
Owned by	BNSF[1]
Services
Former services     Preceding station   Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway   Following station Mazon toward Los Angeles Main Line Lorenzo toward Chicago Dearborn Station

Coal City Station was an Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway station in Coal City, Illinois. It served trains on the "Doodlebug" spur line from Peoria and Pekin, Illinois to Chicago.^[2] The train was often run with one car, dubbed the "dinky", and made its last run on 1955.^[3] The station house is one story and made of brick.^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} ATSF Surviving Depots: Illinois. Retrieved February 4, 2011
2. ^ Kim Sipple. "The History of Coal City". http://www.coalcity-il.com/history/. Retrieved February 4, 2011. 
3. ^ "Santa Fe "doodle bug"". http://www.minonktalk.com/doodle.htm. Retrieved February 4, 2011. 

External Links

• Picture of the depot