H. M. Russell owned a horse-bus (omnibus) company with John Gere that people used to travel from Urbana to West Urbana before the Urbana Railroad Line was installed.
Inside page of Fred and Betty Turner's sixth annual wood-block print Christmas Card, which featured the Urbana Railroad Company's Silver Creek Bridge, also known as the Stone Arch Bridge.
This Illinois Central Railroad advertisement is similar to the one the Turner's mentioned in their history of the Silver Creek bridge from the 1856 edition of the St. Louis Pictorial Advertiser.