The Peoria, Decatur & Evansville Railway

 Name:  Wright, Wrights, Lipsey or Lipsey Switch (Spur), Illinois(elevation 719')
 Mile Post:  116.9
 Previous Station:  Coles
 Next Station:  The Shops
 Description:  At one time Lipsey Switch was a grain elevator located to the northwest of Mattoon.  Today the grain elevator is gone and the city limits of Mattoon are right next to Lipsey.  While some of the customers listed below are technically in Mattoon, they were much closer to Lipsey's mile post and are therefore included here.
 Photos:  Right of Way
 Date Reached:  1872
 Track Status:  Still in place - .
 RR Facilities:

 Livestock Pen (50' x 50') - moved here from Kirby (Barrett) circa 1915 - (listed here in 1916)

 Spur

 Customers:

 American Pad and Paper - Mattoon

 Elevator

 Freman Propane Gas

 Kraft Foods - Mattoon

 Skelly Oil Company - Mattoon

 Last Updated  02/05/2012

 

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