Peoria Station

NOTE: Peoria Area Rail Users are posted alphabetically by railroad station Taloma Farmers Grain Co’s Allen Station grain elevator is shown February 7, 2009. View looks northward. Headlight seen in distance is that of MDMAS (Manifest, Des Moines, IA to Alton & Southern). Taloma Farmers Grain Co is a Delavan-based firm that owns four grain elevators [...]

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NOTE: Peoria Area Rail Users are posted alphabetically by railroad station Three anhydrous ammonia tank cars are shown at Akron Services’ Edelstein (Akron Station) grain elevator and fertilizer storage complex on June 13, 2009 Akron Services Inc. is a Brimfield-based grain, fertilizer, feed and seed dealer with locations at Brimfield, Edelstein (Akron) and Glasford. The [...]

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Peoria International Airport (PIA) is served by both of the nation’s largest air cargo firms, FedEx Express and United Parcel Service (UPS). What does the future bode for these carrier’s local operations? AIRCRAFT CHANGES? FedEx Express is phasing out its fleet of Boeing 727-200C’s, which they’ve used at PIA for three decades. The current plan is to [...]

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See details here! Click here for video taken in and around Galesburg of today’s excursion. The train will do a repeat on Sunday. – David P. Jordan

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 With Peoria Int’l Airport’s longtime passenger terminal demolished, a mostly new structure has been built to support continued FAA tower operations. View is from August 20, 2012. An international terminal may be built where the AmericanConnection Embraer 140 is parked. What will Peoria International Airport’s airline service look like in five or ten years? Put simply, the future depends [...]

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I didn’t know about this one until seeing a message on a railroad newsgroup. Earlier this year, Streator, Illinois was being considered for a $300 million, 150-job, 3 million metric tonne iron ore pellet processing plant by Magnetation Inc. The Nashwauk, Minnesota-based company processes low-grade, disgarded iron ore at two processing plants in its home [...]

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I’m planning to attend railroad memorabilia shows at Decatur and/or Springfield most of Saturday, so there’ll be no new content posted here until Saturday PM at the earliest. So in the meantime, pose your questions here. As always, if I don’t know the answer, I’ll find one. – David P. Jordan

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A Chicago O’Hare-bound AmericanConnection Embraer 140 rolls for takeoff at the Peoria Int’l Airport on June 14, 2012 Changes are coming to American Airlines’ regional feeder operations. Most regional feeder flights to the Fort Worth, Texas-based airline’s hubs are provided by carriers operating under the ”American Eagle” branding, which dates back to 1984. Since May 15, 1998, most of these flights [...]

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I post this series each year. With some already notable changes to the local rail shipper landscape, it’s time for an update. The parameters for this series have not changed: the six counties that make up the Heart of Illinois Regional Port District – Fulton, Marshall, Mason, Peoria, Tazewell and Woodford. All fall into Peoria’s area of influence. Railroad [...]

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A United Parcel Service Airbus A300-600F is shown June 14, 2012 just before sunrise during stop at Peoria Int’l Airport Current air cargo activity at the Gen. Wayne A. Downing Peoria Int’l Airport occurs mostly on weekday mornings and evenings with limited weekend activity. A look at Flightaware.com shows that PIA’s scheduled cargo flights operate three [...]

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