I thought about Mendota, since the Burlington and IC were 1850’s, and the Milw. also came through, but the Indian meaning is “big spring”. This is a good puzzler.
The tracks of the Chicago and Aurora (Chicago, Burlington & Quincy) met those of the Illinois Central, and in 1904 the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad.
As for the indian Name that part came from the book “The 100 Year story of Mendota IL. 1953 Magnificent Whistle Stop.”
Trailryder: (and everyone else) I just wanted to point out, that you sure don’t need to have my pemission, or anybody else’s to post a “where is it thing”: or anything else for that matter. The way I see it, the more posters who share information, the merrier.[:)] It all started when Chad Thomas kind of ran out of photos for his “Western where is it”. I kind of missed having to wrack my brain on those. It’s always fun to learn something new, I did, in fact, look up Mendota, Illinois on a map. just to see what we were talking about.
-Murphy Siding (sitting here wishing he could come up with a “where is it” that could stump Dale in nanaimo[:-,])
Whew! I’m feelin’ better now. Of course, Wall S.D. never was much of a rail center. Unless you’ve “Dug Wall Drug”, it probably doesn’t come to mind at all.[:)]