Minooka station was a Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad station in Minooka, Illinois.
It was the highest point on the Rock Island Line and was originally called Summit.
[3][4][5][6] The town was later renamed by settler Dolly Smith, to Minooka, a word in the Pottowatomi language possibly meaning "high point", "place of contentment", "good Earth" or "place of the maples.
"[7] Additional translations of the word may be "good land” or “high place.”[8] CSX Transportation runs freight trains on the New Rock Subdivision with Iowa Interstate trackage rights.
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