Peoria Station

I’m still having computer problems, and don’t know when they’ll be resolved. Meanwhile, post questions and comments at the “Ask Peoria Station” post below. – David P. Jordan

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I’m having some computer problems, so I’ll only bother with news-driven posts until the problem is resolved. Unfortunately, I can’t say when that’ll be. Meanwhile, feel free to post questions and comments here. I’ll answer when I get to a computer. – David P. Jordan

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To all my lurkers and commenters, have a Merry Christmas! I’ll conclude with a treat. I caught two BNSF manifest trains on the Chillicothe Subdivision passing my spot a few minutes apart. Click here to view a video. First is M-NSIGAL (Manifest, Norfolk Southern Interchange to GALesburg); second is M-GALIHB (Manifest, GALesburg to Indiana Harbor [...]

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The Galesburg Register-Mail is reporting that Decatur-based Archer Daniels Midland Co. is going to reopen its Galesburg plant. But not to crush soybeans. Come July 2012, the facility will reopen as a grain elevator with a one million bushel storage capacity. The plant’s closure left 31 out of work, but the new operation will employ five. In the next [...]

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In August 2011, the Boston Consulting Group released a report entitled Made in America Again: Why Manufacturing Will Return to the U. S.  Its basic premise is that outsourcing work to China as the benefit to U. S. manufacturers may be declining. The reason for this is given on Page 5: “…by sometime around 2015 – for many goods destined [...]

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Steve Tarter’s Business Watch column entitled Peoria left at the station again contains an interesting theory as to why Peoria seems to lose out every time there is a push to restore area rail passenger service. Peoria’s problem, of course, goes back to “the terrible prank the Ice Age played on Peoria,” noted Fritz Plous of [...]

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I haven’t posted one of these in awhile (not that they get many comments anyway ). I do have some posts planned for the near future, however, so bear with me. These include a detailed analysis of Norfolk Southern Railway train D46D and some further commentary on Amtrak’s Peoria-Chicago rail passenger feasibility study. – David [...]

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There a many reasons to be thankful that Atlantic Southeast Airlines dba Delta Connection is resuming thrice-daily Peoria-Atlanta roundtrip flights on April 9. One is that Pinnacle Airlines, which provides Delta Connection service to Detroit (four daily roundtrips) and Minneapolis/St. Paul (one daily roundtrip) is experiencing financial stress. So Bloomberg reported December 8. Pinnacle Airlines [...]

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With a $116 million price tag to implement East Peoria-Normal “rail shuttle” service, I’m not surprised by the news coming out of Tuesday’s meeting of the Tri-County Regional Planning Commission’s “passenger rail advisory committee.” The Journal Star is reporting that buses will be used to connect Peoria with Amtrak at Normal. The idea of Amtrak buses, used [...]

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The Journal Star is reporting that the Peoria Int’l Airport terminal gift shop is closing at the end of December. The owner gives the following reason: “…her shop suffered after the airport terminal reopened in April following a major face-lift.” Okay. I see the problem. The gift shop lost sales because it failed to move to [...]

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