Peoria Station

A commenter has alerted me to the news that the “Feasibility Report on Proposed Amtrak Service – Chicago-Peoria” is now available on IDOT’s website. The report (dated September 26) is 28 pages long and contains a number of items worthy of individual posts. On page 3 for example: The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) formally requested Amtrak [...]

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As expected, area newspapers are reporting guarded optimism from airport officials in the region regarding the future of American Airlines-affiliated regional carriers’ continued service to their facilities. Said Gen. Wayne A. Downing Peoria Int’l Airport’s director to the Journal Star: “We’ll have to watch what they do with routes and frequencies in the future, but [...]

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 An American Airlines Boeing 777-200 about to land at Chicago-O’Hare Int’l Airport on October 1, 2011 – DPJ Photo AMR Corporation, parent of American Airlines and American Eagle, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this morning. Rising costs and high debt was cited as the reason for this action. As some of you know, either or both [...]

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A flasher-equipped gate protecting train movements from northbound vehicles on N. University Street in Pioneer Industrial Park was leaning Thanksgiving Day. It was still that way Sunday evening. A truck making a wide turn here drunk driver is the likely cause. Hopefully, repairs will be made soon. This crossing is part of the so-called “Western Connection,” an [...]

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Amtrak’s first St. Louis-bound Lincoln Service train out of Chicago this morning not only had extra cars for the Thanksgiving Weekend travel rush, it also had the last full-length dome car left in intercity service. Serving as a Dome-Lounge car, AMTK 10031 was built in 1955 for Great Northern Railway’s Empire Builder streamliner and conveyed to Amtrak upon its [...]

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Allegiant Air just didn’t bid high enough. The Federal Aviation Administration’s bidding process for two bundles of 16 slots each at New York’s La Guardia Airport concluded at 5:00pm EDT yesterday. According to this Bloomberg article, the winners were Canada’s WestJet and jetBlue Airways. As part of the same process, a single bundle of 16 slots at [...]

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Iowa Interstate northbound passes the Chillicothe Historical Society’s former Rock Island depot on September 27, 2011 The southbound Bureau Switcher of September 3 returned northbound with a coal train. Although this is a regular source of business for the Iowa Interstate Railroad’s Bureau Jct. – Peoria line, I want to show carload freight. So I [...]

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Iowa Interstate’s “Bureau Switcher” arrives the North Limit Yard in Peoria on September 3, 2011. Three engines and 28 cars (most if not all loaded with feed) will be delivered to the Tazewell & Peoria RR shortly. Peoria’s first railroad is alive and well. The Bureau Jct.-Peoria line was owned and operated by the Chicago, Rock [...]

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A Pinnacle Airlines dba Delta Connection Canadair Regional Jet (CRJ200) arrives Peoria from Minneapolis/St. Paul on July 23, 2011. It’s official: Peoria is getting its Atlanta flights back. This was confirmed today at a news conference held at the Peoria Int’l Airport. Three daily roundtrips will be offered starting April 9, 2012. While the article oozes with civic [...]

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- David P. Jordan

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