Danville, Olney and Ohio River Railroad

The Danville, Olney and Ohio River Railroad was a 3 ft narrow gauge line in Illinois that ran south from Sidell to West Liberty and existed in the late nineteenth century. The original plan was a 243-mile route from Danville through Hume to the Ohio River, but only the portion through Hume was finished and put into service in 1881. Local people knew it by many names, among them Kansas and Sidell, Old Dody and Dog River. As the roadbed decayed, freight moved at about nine and a half miles per hour and derailments were frequent. Its rolling stock was one caboose and two former switch engines bought from the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad. It was sold at foreclosure in 1886, resold in 1898 to a predecessor of the Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Western, and abandoned in 1938.