Mazon station
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Mazon was a small Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway station in Mazon, Illinois, 66.1 timetable miles west of Chicago.[2][3] Now on the BNSF Southern Transcon line, it also served the Kankakee and Seneca railroad.
LocationEast Street
Mazon, Illinois
Mazon, Illinois
SystemFormer AT&SF passenger rail station
Owned byBNSF
LineGrand Canyon
Mazon | |||||||||||
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The front of the station | |||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | East Street Mazon, Illinois | ||||||||||
| System | Former AT&SF passenger rail station | ||||||||||
| Owned by | BNSF | ||||||||||
| Line | Grand Canyon | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Structure type | at-grade | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | 1898[1] | ||||||||||
| Closed | unknown | ||||||||||
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The more famous Santa Fe trains such as the Super Chief, Chief and El Capitan didn't stop at Mazon.[2] Only the local mail train called on the station; a motor car in the waning years.[4] Even though passenger service has long left Mazon, the building still stands and is used by BNSF maintenance workers.[3][5]
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backside, different angle
