108 passes through Carlinville connecting Interstate 55 to the east with Kampsville to the west, where it crosses the Illinois River on a free, state-operated ferry. The Carlinville Amtrak station is served directly by five daily trains, offering easy access south to St. Louis and north to Springfield and Chicago. One train is the Texas Eagle which connects Chicago to Texas and features sleeping cars, a dining car and a lounge. Freight rail service is provided by the Union Pacific Railroad, formerly the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio, the Illinois Central Gulf, the Chicago, Missouri and Western, and the Southern Pacific Chicago - St. Louis Railways. The main line of the GM&O passed through Carlinville. The Illinois Terminal Railroad, an electric interurban to St. Louis from Springfield that once provided both freight and passenger service, passed down the middle of Carlinville's West Street. It was still operating freight trains on West Street to a nearby grain elevator into the 1970s. Its trestle crossing Goat Hollow south of Carlinville burned severing the line, which was then abandoned. A small portion of the line is used by Monterey Coal Co. mine to connect with the former Chicago and North Western Transportation Company L & M District, serving coal-fired power plants. Notable people Walter Stratton Anderson (1881–1981), U.S. Navy vice admiral Mary Hunter Austin (1868–1934), writer Dana J. Boente (1954– ), General Counsel of the FBI and former Acting Attorney General of the United States William A. Boring (1859–1934), architect Frank W. Burton (1857-1934), Illinois state legislator and judge Kelsey Card (1992- ), Olympic discus thrower Louis P. Daley (1868–1930), Illinois state representative Vince Demuzio (1941-2004), Illinois state senator and chairman of the Illinois Democratic Party Palemon Howard Dorsett (1862–1943), horticulturalist Cornelius J. Doyle (1871–1938), Illinois Secretary of State David Gore (1823–1911), Illinois state senator and State Auditor Mark Juergensmeyer (1940– ), religious scholar Truman H. Landon (1905–1986), U.S. Air Force general Louis John Lanzerotti (1938- ), research professor of physics, New Jersey Institute of Technology Gustave Loehr (1864–1918), co-founder of Rotary International Peter F. Mack Jr. (1916–1986), congressman from Illinois William Moise (1922–1980), artist William L. Mounts (1862–1929), Illinois state legislator, lawyer, and mayor of Carlinville John McAuley Palmer (1870–1955), U.S. Army general Charles Robertson (1858–1935), entomologist Richard Rowett (1830-1887), Civil War officer and horse breeder W. O. Woods (1873-1951), Treasurer of the United States References External links Carlinville Chamber of Commerce Cities