 With many bushels of grain and many head of cattle to be marketed, accompanied by a demand for raw materials, a railroad was soon found to be needed.At this time the government entered the picture and gave every sixth mile of land to a division of the Wabash, St Louis & Pacific Railway.This was used to form a railroad called "The Peanut Line," which ran from Champaign to Havana, Illinois, a total of 110 miles.