Illinois Central Electric Railway

The Illinois Central Electric Railway (ICE) was an interurban line in Fulton County in western Illinois, west of Peoria.

The company was founded on October 9, 1903.[1] The line ran from Lewistown north to Farmington with a branch from Norris to Fairview. The line opened as follows:

1909 Canton–Brereton–Norris
1910 Norris–Fairview
1911 Norris–Gilchrist–Maplewood–Farmington
1912 Lewistown–Bryant–St. David–Dunfermline–Canton

The railroad lost the competition to the automobile and was abandoned on July 25, 1928.[2]

References

RHDB, search for the railroad's name Archived 2015-11-04 at the Wayback Machine
Hilton, George W.; Due, John Fitzgerald (1960). The Electric Interurban Railways in America. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. p. 346. ISBN 978-0-8047-4014-2. OCLC 237973.

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[1] RHDB, search for the railroad's name Archived 2015-11-04 at the Wayback Machine

[2] Hilton, George W.; Due, John Fitzgerald (1960). The Electric Interurban Railways in America. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. p. 346. ISBN 978-0-8047-4014-2. OCLC 237973.