Peoria Station

PEORIA – In Monday’s print edition, the Journal Star screwed up the map that accompanied its Rt. 90-Union Pacific Railroad crossing closure notice. With accurate online maps available, how can this happen in 2009?
Fortunately, the online edition has the error corrected.
- David P. Jordan

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  Is Indiana Jones a passenger on this flight? No, this is just the EAA’s Ford Tri-Motor on final aproach to Runway 22 at Peoria Int’l Airport on Sunday afternoon, September 27, 2009.
 I took advantage of Sunday’s afternoon’s sunny skies to get some pics of the  Experimental Aircraft Association’s “Eastern Air Transport” Ford Tri-Motor, NC8407, which [...]

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A lot of the news out of Springfield regarding the high-speed rail and increased freight train frequency controversy is starting to sound like a broken record. Those few commenters [to the on-line stories] who make any sense are unable to penetrate the collossal ignorance and extreme selfishness of the majority.
What bothers me is this article in today’s State [...]

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  Understanding the benefits of rail transportation to the Peoria area requires not only familiarity with the firms using railroads but also commodities and products shipped and received. Click here for a list of rail users in the six-county TransPORT region (Fulton, Marshall, Mason, Peoria, Tazewell and Woodford) and what types of traffic they ship and receive. It’s [...]

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I started this blog September 18, 2008. I missed the actual date, but thought I’d mention the first anniversary anyway.
- David P. Jordan

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Following years of labor unrest and a long shutdown, the Toledo Peoria & Western Railroad Company entered a period of prosperity under the leadership of J. Russel Coulter. Coulter, who took the office of TP&W President and General Manager on May 1, 1947, spearheaded the purchase of real estate adjacent to his railroad’s tracks. The [...]

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Today’s Journal Star reports:
The Tri-County Regional Planning Commission tried for $78.6 million to link the Peoria area with high-speed rail proposed between Chicago and St. Louis. The Heart of Illinois Regional Port District (TransPORT) asked for $31.4 million to link its 70-acre Mapleton property to the river.
My Take: A link for Peoria to the proposed [...]

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I haven’t blogged about Springfield’s anti-rail hysteria for several days, but a lot has been going on. Just read the www.sj-r.com and its Boiler Room blog. Most significant is that Mayor Tim Davlin seems to have softened his position a bit, probably the result of last Friday’s meeting with other politicans and railroad officials.
Unfortunately, commenters to these online [...]

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  PEORIA – For nearly three years, PMP Fermentation Products has received corn syrup, the primary raw material needed to manufacture its line of gluconate and erythorbate products, by railcar. The first arrived around January 11, 2007.
Since that time, PMP has received railcars on a regular basis. Traffic appears to have increased signficantly during the past [...]

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Illinois Transportation Secretary Gary Hannig, U. S. Senator Dick Durbin, Mayor Tim Davlin, Sangamon County Board Chairman Andy Van Meter and railroad officials met Friday to discuss recent rail-related controversies, and there appears to have been an agreement, the State Journal-Register reports:
The state of Illinois will apply for federal funding for a high-speed rail corridor [...]

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