Abandoned Railroad Crossing (Madison Avenue & Abington Street, Peoria, IL)

This crossing is located on the OOS CIRY Kellar Branch.

[@LakeStateRailfan]

I accidentally found this on Google Maps a year ago, good to see there's a video on it.

[@daltondick5223]

love the cast iron track signs! I was looking on google streetview and noticed that Vine street had an interesting signal mast at one time. Possibly and old WRRS Autoflag but i dont know for sure. A trail was built not far from that crossing so the tracks there are gone but the trees where too thick to see if the mast was there still.

[@kyleb06]

Same here! I'm pretty sure that mast is gone now, but I didn't check.

[@daltondick5223]

@@kyleb06 it would be awesome if there are any old photos of the crossings or the line in service

[@TravelingRailfan501]

Let’s face it trains will never use this track again Why?
The Tracks Are Cut Off, There Is A Trail Where The Tracks Were
The Crossings Are Too Old
And The Industry Is Pretty Much Dead

[@TravelingRailfan501]

Cool video though

[@kyleb06]

Thanks! Yea, no reason for trains to ever come down here.

[@TheYardLimit]

These tracks are still connected to live rail. The connection is being put back in service so that the Tazewell can resume service to O'Brien Steel. When I was last in Peoria, I was surprised to see these tracks still intact that far up. I do see no reason for these tracks to see use, except perhaps to stage cars for O'Brien. They last saw service probably in 2010 or maybe 2009