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The Evansville western railway (althoug its still a railroad) resent history can be found on the official website. The short story is that it’s a former L&N later CSXT. The line had been sinking in traffic and maintenance volume as CSXT had two parallel lines to St. Louis and this line was the one that got cut.
Power for the startup was provided by the PAL and there possibly were some GMTX lease units on hand. Early on 3 SD40’s were acquired and overhauled and repainted by NRE at Paducah, although NRE’s home office and shops are along the EVWR. The SD60 became available and that too was added to the fleet. As more EVWR GP’s became available the PAL units returned home mostly bumping GMTX 26xx locomotives back to NRE at Paducah.
Types of traffic one can expect to see along the EVWR are unit trains with CSXT or BNSF power that is run through to ether the loading or unloading points. EVWR and GMTX 26xx lease units holding down most general job assignments and the EVWR 600x series on unit coal train service headed offline for loading to an offline mine.
Service is daily on the east end and is as needed on the west end particularly west of Mount Vernon IL.
For information on CSXT at Evansville and points North and South see the CSXT page
160.8150 Evansville Western Road Channel
161.055 Evansville Western (2nd Channel)
160.275 (unknown use)
161.310 (unknown use)
| Mile post | location name | notes |
|---|---|---|
| 445.21 | Okawville IL | current end of the line |
| 441.9 | Addieville IL | West end of siding |
| 441.0 | Addieville IL | Elavator spur |
| 440.6 | Addieville IL | East End of siding |
| 434.9 | Nashville IL | former MP crossing |
| 434.71 | Nashville IL | |
| 429.71 | Beacoup | |
| 424.11 | Ashley IL | Crossing with CN |
| 423.7 | Ashley crossing | CN diamonds |
| 415.5 | Woodlawn IL | location of crossing |
| 415.11 | Woodlawn IL | unused passing track/BNSF interchange |
| 414.? | Woodlawn IL | east end of the passing track |
| 413.86 | Trout Rd crossing | crossing past the end of the passing track |
| 408.11 | Mt. Vernon IL | |
| 407.21 | shops | NRE shops and UP &NS at Mt. Vernon IL |
| 406.6 | UP diamonds | location per the SCL #4 ETT |
| 403.61 | Shirley | now just a single ended siding |
| 403.17 | Howard Chapel Rd Grade crossing /Coral road | now end of "Shirly passing track" New passing track to the East |
| 400.xx | Opdyke IL | new siding, east end |
| 400.49 | Opdyke IL | Lighthouse Rd crossing between the town and new siding |
| 400.0 | Opdyke IL | Yard limits |
| 397.21 | Belle Rive IL | Passes over the CN Edgewood Cut-off, hot box detector |
| 393.31 | Dahlgren IL | Old station, private owner |
| 380.00? | White Oak Mine 1 | West lead |
| 388.37? | White Oak Mine 1 | East lead |
| 388.00 | road to White Oak Mine 1 | 500E road |
| 387.71 | Delafield IL | passing track |
| 385.32 | county road 19, paved | grade crossing west of wye to "saveatran spur" |
| 385.3 | Sugar camp mine Wye west switch | leads to the "McLeansboro District" |
| 385.0 | Sugar camp mine Wye east switch | just off County Rd 725 E(East), gravel |
| 382.71 | Mc Leansboro IL | Crew base, Passing track |
| 377.30 | ? | Bunge-SCF Grain spur using old coal mine |
| 377.01 | Thackeray IL | |
| 370.00 | Enfeild IL | Grain elevator with locomotive |
| 370.1 | Enfeild IL | old crossing, trackage used by elevator to store cars (location per SCL #4 ETT) |
| 369.81 | Enfeild IL | old Station location? |
| 369.6 | Enfeild IL | west end of passing track |
| 364.51 | Trumbull IL | West end of siding? |
| 364.41 | Trumbull siding? | CR700E grade crossing, About 3 miles North of Brownsville IL |
| 363.41 | Trumbull siding? | CR800E grade crossing, |
| 362.39 | (none) | CR900E grade crossing West of Carmi |
| 360.31 | Carmi IL | Old Junction with NYC/PC & joint bridge |
| 356.61 | Epworth | Passing track/Patiki mine to the east |
| 355.1 | Patiki mine | abandoned “Epworth defect detector" |
| 355.05 | Patiki mine | Crossing behind mine, adjacent to abandoned “ Epworth defect detector“ Patiki mine conector to the immediate east, no conection to the west |
| 353.11 | County road 1700 East | New hotbox detector Adjacent grade crossing (detector is between there and MP 353.0) |
| 352.41 | Maunie | |
| 345.51 | Upton | Passing track |
| 341.41 | Mt. Vernon IN | Operating Headquarters Southside of town |
| MP neaded | Main st crossing Mt. vernon | MOW base, smal yard to west |
| 339.9 | Tile Factory Rd, Mt. Vernon IN | grade crossing between Yards and port |
| MP neaded | Leonard rd | east of port, east end of siding and port lead |
| MP neaded | william Keck bypass IN 69 | west of old bayer plant |
| 337.43 | Lamott IN | |
| MP neaded | Indian mound rd | sidings to west |
| MP neaded | Nations siding west end | Nations siding west end of long and short passing track |
| 335.5 | Nations siding | yard limit & East end of passing track, Nation road crossing |
| 334.78 | Cabon Rd | grade crossing outside of the commuity of Cabon IN |
| 332.38 | Ford road crossing | ajacent to the corner of wolf road & ford road |
| MP # needed | South Vectren | |
| 332.0 | railroad west of North Vectren | |
| 331.5 | Abee IN | (ABEC on EVWR map)A.B. Brown power Plant & Bio energy plant, now known as North Vectren |
| (need MP #) | Wildman Rd | crossing between Vectren and Belknap siding |
| 331.37 | Belknap siding | Aprox West end of siding extention, short of North Vectren |
| need mp # | St Phillips rd | at Creamety rd |
| 329.6 | Buchanan crossover | mid siding crosover from siding to main |
| Need MP # | Hogue Rd crossing | at creamery rd |
| 328.68 | Belknap IN | |
| 328.3 | Roesner road crossing (OOS?) | near end of siding. End of siding is between crosing and University parkway overpass |
| 328.3 | Belknap IN | Howell BLOCK sign |
| 328.68 | North Howell IN | |
| 323.40 | Howell IN | CSXT yard |