- Mazon Station
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Mazon
Former AT&SF passenger rail station
The front of the stationStation statistics Address East Street
Mazon, IllinoisLines Grand Canyon Structure at-grade Platforms 1 side platform Tracks 2 Other information Opened 1898[1] Closed unknown Owned by BNSF Services Former services Preceding station Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Following station Veronatoward Los AngelesMain Line toward Chicago Dearborn StationMazon Station was a small Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway station in Mazon, Illinois. The station was 66 miles west of Chicago[2][3] on the BNSF Southern Transcon line. The most famous Santa Fe trains such as the Chief, Super Chief, and El Capitan didn't stop at Mazon. The Grand Canyon Limited train numbers 123 and 124 were the only service to Mazon.[2] Even though passenger service has long left Mazon, the building still stands and is used by BNSF maintenance workers.[3][4]
Gallery
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backside, different angleReferences
- ^ Mazon Depot. Retrieved February 3, 2011
- ^ a b Solomon, Brian (2003). "Santa Fe History". Santa Fe Railway. Motorbooks International. p. 21. ISBN 0760310726.
- ^ a b Fred Frailey (August 22, 2011). "Unearthing the old Santa Fe in Illinois". Trains magazine. http://cs.trains.com/TRCCS/blogs/fred-frailey/archive/2010/08/22/discovering-the-old-santa-fe-in-illinois.aspx. Retrieved February 3, 2011.
- ^ Surviving Illinois railroad depots. Retrieved February 2, 2011
External Links
Categories:- Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway stations
- Former railway stations in Illinois
- Buildings and structures in Grundy County, Illinois
- Illinois railway station stubs
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