Minooka | ||||||||||||||||
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Former Rock Island Line passenger rail station | ||||||||||||||||
General information | ||||||||||||||||
Location | Minooka, Illinois | |||||||||||||||
Owned by | track owned by CSX Transportation[1] | |||||||||||||||
Platforms | 1 side platform | |||||||||||||||
Tracks | 1 | |||||||||||||||
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Structure type | at-grade | |||||||||||||||
History | ||||||||||||||||
Opened | 1852[2] | |||||||||||||||
Previous names | Summit | |||||||||||||||
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Minooka station was a Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad station in Minooka, Illinois. It was the highest point on the Rock Island Line and was originally called Summit.[3][4][5][6] The town was later renamed by settler Dolly Smith, to Minooka, a word in the Pottowatomi language possibly meaning "high point", "place of contentment", "good Earth" or "place of the maples."[7] Additional translations of the word may be "good land” or “high place.”[8] CSX Transportation runs freight trains on the New Rock Subdivision with Iowa Interstate trackage rights.[1][9]