The Peoria, Decatur & Evansville Railway

 Name:  Dalton City, Illinois(elevation 689') - Telegraph: DA
 Mile Post:  90.8
 Previous Station:  Hight
 Next Station:  Bethany
 Description:  Named after Thomas Dalton, it was laid out about year before the railroad arrived.
 Photos:  Right of Way 
 Date Reached:  1872
 Track Status:  Still in place - .
 RR Facilities:

 Coal House (9' x 7' x 8') - built 1895 - (listed here in 1916)

 Wood Depot (50' x 18' x 14') - built 1880 - (listed here in 1944)

 Hand Car House (14' x 8'6" x 7') - placed here in 1895 - half car body - (listed here in 1916)

 (2) Livestock Pens (102' x 40') overall - (listed here in 1900)

 (3) Livestock Pens (40' x 32') each - (listed here in 1916)

 Livestock Scale - (listed here in 1916)

 Tool House - (listed here in 1916)

 Customers:

 Custom Farm - later Perkinson Co - about a mile south of town

 Farmers Co-op Grain 

 Last Updated  02/05/2012

 

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