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Railroads: CN,UP

Frequency: Unkown.

Radio Frequencies:
UP 160.410(20)
CN 160.920(54)

Personal Safety: Good

Local Police/RR Police:
Sparta PD, RR n/a

Food: Around town.

Other Information

Only seen one train here in town - a local CN freight moving north to Coulterville. I believe the UP which comes into town from the southwest has filed for abandonedment from Evansville to Sparta. UP already abandoned the line north of Sparta from Coulterville to Centralia with the portion between Sparta and Coulterville used by the CN.

Sparta was one of the locations (Belleville and Freeburg, IL and Dyersburg, TN) where the movie "In the Heat of the Night" was filmed. The railroad station, ex GM&O, is now an art museum (click here to go the their website).

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