On November 29th, Sarah and I went to the Dahlgren Train Depot in Dahlgren, Illinois. The Dahlgren train station was built in 1871. It was built as part of the St. Louis Railway. It is no longer in use. Sarah and I traveled 118.84 miles to the train depot and back. We traveled in my car.

Dahlgren is located on Illinois Route 142 (formerly U.S. Route 460). The Evansville Western Railway, formerly CSX Transportation, provides freight rail service to Dahlgren. CSX put 120 miles of rail line from Evansville, IN to Okawville, IL to the Paducah and Louisville Railway (PAL), an operating entity of Four Rivers Transportation, Inc., in a transaction whereby CSX sold all track, ties and track equipment to PAL and provided a 20-year lease on the right-of-way. Upon completion of the sale on December 31, 2005, PAL transferred all interests to the new Class III operating entity.
Dahlgren has no regularly scheduled passenger services. The nearest passenger rail connection, which is the AMTRAK, is in Centralia, Illinois.