Springfield Union Station is a former train station in Springfield, Illinois, which is currently part of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. The Richardson Romanesque-style station is
The former Springfield Union Station is a component of the Lincoln Presidential Library Visitor Center
January 1901 Illinois Central advertisement promoting their new Chicago–Springfield–St. Louis through route.
Illinois Central's influence is still visible throughout the structure. One example is the detail trim on the wooden stair railing, crafted in the outline of the Illinois Central logo which was in use in 1898.
New clock tower constructed in 2006 to replicate tower removed in 1946 from Springfield Union Station
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The Green Diamond was a streamlined passenger train operated by the Illinois Central Railroad between Chicago, Illinois and St. Louis, Missouri. It operated from 1936 until 1968. It was the Illinois C
Springfield Union Station (Illinois)
…service offered by the Chicago and Alton Railroad. By 1936, the Illinois Central name trains serving Springfield on the same route were the Green Diamond and the Night Diamond. Baltimore and Ohio passenger service through Springfield was secondary in nature, with service over one line from Indianapolis…
IC #121 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at the Milwaukee Road depot on April 24, 1936, prior to the inauguration of the Green Diamond.
Green Diamond with conventional equipment at Kankakee in August 1964
A 1936 postcard promoting the Illinois Central's streamlined Green Diamond