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John W. Allen: It Happened in Southern Illinois. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale 1968, ISBN 0809329689, S. 119.
George Woodman Hilton: American narrow gauge railroads. Stanford University Press, Stanford 1990, ISBN 0804717311, S. 384.
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John W. Allen: It Happened in Southern Illinois. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale 1968, ISBN 0809329689, S. 111–112.
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ILLINOIS - Jackson County im National Register of Historic Places: Mobile and Ohio Railroad Depot, auch als Illinois Central Gulf Railroad Depot bekannt, 1701 Walnut St., Murphysboro. (NRHP-Aufnahme 1984, #84000317) (Abgerufen am 15. August 2011.)