Traveling Through Illinois by LuAnn Cadden
Author:LuAnn Cadden
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Published: 2013-03-15T00:00:00+00:00
21: From Rail to Trail
Just ahead, hikers and bicyclists cross above semi-trucks on a trailway that was once part of the Illinois Central Railway, one of three railroads that served Glen Carbon. In 1892, an English businessman in the coal industry named the village Carbon Glen, meaning Coal Valley. His daughter convinced him that Glen Carbon sounded better. Today, rubber bike tires roll quietly along the path where steel wheels used to scream. The other two railroad lines that served Glen Carbon also have been converted to trails, thereby creating a branching network of more than eighty-five miles of trailway along the original lines that once stimulated local growth and prosperity. Walkers and riders can travel through tunnels and across timber trestle bridges, past prairies of swaying grasses and over bluffs above winding waterways on the Glen Carbon Trail.
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