Peoria Station

PEORIA – Bad news for trail proponents who hoped the City of Peoria, developers and the railroads operating on the Kellar Branch would make a deal to allow for trail development, as it appears the line is about to see an increase in traffic. From storage cars, anyway.
Empty LPG tank cars have been accumulating at [...]

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PEORIA – The year was 1977. The Tri-County Regional Planning Commission issued a report in June of that year profiling the Peoria Gateway, its 11 eleven railroads, their facilities and customers. The railroad which served most rail customers in the so-called Peoria-Pekin Switching District (consisting of Bartonville, Creve Coeur, East Peoria, Pekin and Peoria) was the [...]

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PEORIA – Yesterday, the Peoria Journal Star posted on its website an article about O’Brien Steel Service Co.’s plans for expansion. The steel warehouse and fabricator wants to erect (though perhaps not until the economy improves) a 70,000 sq. foot building on recently purchased land between Caroline and Spring Streets.
Good news, right? So why does [...]

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TP&W wind turbine parts train is shown at Bartonville on April 2, 2009.
PEORIA – The Toledo Peoria & Western Railway received its first wind turbine parts train of 2009 on Thursday, April 2. Union Pacific delivered the train to TP&W at Sommer (south of Bartonville off Rt. 24 – site of AmerenCILCO’s E. D. Edwards [...]

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PEORIA -  The job to construct the new  terminal building at the General Wayne A Downing Peoria International Airport will go to a local firm. According to the Peoria Journal Star, Peoria Heights-based Williams Brothers Construction put in the low bid of $23.3 million. Work may start within three months.
The terminal is scheduled to open by October [...]

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