Peoria Station

   A Tazewell & Peoria RR yard job switches the inbound TP&W train from Galesburg on April 20, 2011 Part III profiling customers of the Tazewell & Peoria RR focuses on those served by yard jobs based at the East Peoria Yard. They are located at Creve Coeur and East Peoria. ADM GRAIN COMPANY -Address: 910 [...]

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Sometimes, city councils do what is right. The City of Kokomo, Indiana wanted removed an unused railroad from inside city limits south for trail construction. That’s a no-brainer when its an unused railroad, right? Not pretend to be unused as the City of Peoria and the Journal Star Editorial Board did with the Kellar Branch.  Except a [...]

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Pinnacle Airlines dba Delta Connection is making adjustments to its Peoria schedule. Effective September 7, flights on the Peoria-Detroit route will double from two weekday roundtrips to four (fewer on weekends). At the same time, two weekday Peoria-Minneapolis/St. Paul flights will be cut in half. The new schedules have already been loaded into Delta’s reservations system. Detroit [...]

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I haven’t posted one of these in a while. Hopefully, ya’ll have questions you’re dying to ask. To get the ball rolling, I’ll mention that the Toledo, Peoria & Western has discontinued operation of its tri-weekly Galesburg Job. As of June 21, BNSF Railway crews and locomotives handle their own carload traffic between Galesburg and [...]

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This post has nothing to do with railroads, save for a connection with a grain elevator that did ship by rail in the 1970s. Instead, I’d like to point out another example of poor, biased journalism from the Peoria Journal Star. Saturday’s paper included an article entitled, Grain elevator plan raises concerns. It is about [...]

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The Kickapoo Job is at Bridge Junction on March 26, 2010 after switching Keystone Steel & Wire and Peoria River Terminal In this installment, rail users served by the Tazewell & Peoria Railroad’s “Kickapoo Job” (named after a small yard located between I-474 and W. Clarke Street). Those listed are located between Bridge Junction and [...]

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Tazewell & Peoria RR’s “Industry Job” is shown June 15, 2011 waiting for the passage of a coal train The Tazewell & Peoria Railroad serves numerous customers (“rail users”) so this post will come in four parts divided by train assignment. The first will detail those serviced by the Industry Jobs which handle the area [...]

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Pioneer Industrial Railway locomotive and boxcar rest at Carver Lumber on March 29, 2009. Scenes like this aren’t likely to be repeated. Liquidation of Central Illinois Railroad Co’s assets during 2010 leaves Pioneer Industrial Railway as sole operator of two disconnected city-owned rail lines. These are the south end from “P&PU Switch” (near Spring St.) to Park [...]

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Norfolk Southern’s eastbound train D46D is shown passing TP&W’s East Peoria Yard on June 15, 2011 Norfolk Southern does not directly serve any industries in the six-county Heart of Illinois Regional Port District. The closest ones served are in McLean County. Through interchange with the Tazewell & Peoria RR, however, the NS handles a decent [...]

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The Keokuk Junction Railway’s famous “F-unit” lashup works the Union Pacific interchange at Bartonville on May 20, 2011 This installment profiles shippers served by the Keokuk Junction Railway in the Heart of Illinois Regional Port District. In this case, on-line shippers located in Fulton County. AMERENILLINOIS – DUCK CREEK STATION -Address: 17751 N. Cilco Rd., [...]

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