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It appears the Peabody Short line was wholly owned by the Peabody Coal Company. 

Some research has turned up an article in the February 1960 Trains Magazine, which mostly concerns itself with the yellow hopper cars.  From what little I can determine, the line apparently ran 18 miles from the Peabody coal mine in Freeburg, IL to the interchange with the TRRA at East St. Louis.  Apparently, cars with PSL reporting marks interchanged to other railroads while cars with PCCX reporting marks cars went only to the barge loading dock at East St. Louis.

Rusty

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