Peoria Station

NOTE: Peoria Area Rail Users are posted alphabetically by railroad station Ameren Illinois’ E. D. Edwards Station as seen April 18, 2009 Ameren Illinois’ E. D. Edwards Station is a 780 MW power plant that originally opened in 1960. Additional units went online in 1968 and 1972. Power generated by this faclity and the Duck [...]

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NOTE: Peoria Area Rail Users are posted alphabetically by railroad station Ruff Brothers Grain Inc’s shuttle elevator shown September 23, 2006 After realizing ”Ruff Rail“ was located on the eastern edge of Marshall County near Toluca, I began including it among Peoria Area Rail Users. Owned by Ruff Brothers Grain Inc. it began operations along BNSF Railway’s Chillicothe Subdivision [...]

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NOTE: Peoria Area Rail Users are posted alphabetically by railroad station Seneca Foods Corp’s Princeville cannery is seen on August 19, 2010. Beige-colored building to the left of the water tower is newly-completed warehouse. Seneca Foods’ Princeville cannery has a long history. I believe it dates back to the 1920s as the Princeville Canning Co. [...]

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The War on Coal is inflicting heavy casualties. “So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can. It’s just that it will bankrupt them because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted.” So said then Democratic Presidential Hopeful (and U. S. Senator) and now President Barack Obama to [...]

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NOTE: Peoria Area Rail Users are posted alphabetically by railroad station A Union Pacific coal train gets spotted July 10, 2010 on Midwest Generation LC’s new Powerton rail loop Midwest Generation LLC has been operator of the large Powerton Generating Station since 1999, but operations at this site date more than eight decades. Commonwealth Edison opened the first [...]

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NOTE: Peoria Area Rail Users are posted alphabetically by railroad station Harsco Minerals opened its Powerton facility in 2005 to process power plant cinders into roofing granules and industrial abrasives. The company, then operating as Reed Minerals Co., has long operated at Ellis, Illinois next to Dominion-Kincaid Generation LLC’s power plant. Harsco’s Powerton operation is primarily supplied [...]

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NOTE: Peoria Area Rail Users are posted alphabetically by railroad station Pioneer Industrial Railway locomotive and boxcar at Carver Lumber on March 29, 2009 Carver Lumber has received material at the Tazewell & Peoria Railroad’s Creve Coeur facilities since the fall of 2006, and only a handful of cars were delivered directly to Pioneer Park [...]

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A Delta Air Lines Airbus A-319 is shown October 1, 2011 about land at Chicago-O’Hare International Airport Delta Air Lines will begin flying its own aircraft out of Bloomington-Normal’s Central Illinois Regional Airport in early March. Airbus A-319′s will begin operating an evening arrival (9:24 pm) from Atlanta on March 2 and a morning departure (6:00 [...]

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NOTE: Peoria Area Rail Users are posted alphabetically by railroad station Honestly, I can’t confirm yet whether Solazyme’s Peoria facility is using rail service. Call this post speculative. I listed this South San Francisco, California-based biofuel firm as a Peoria area rail user based on information shown on Page 2 of this 29-page U. S. Department [...]

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On December 1, I posted this article about rail shipments of steel pipe being routed via the Peoria area enroute to Havana for Enbridge Ltd’s 600-mile Flanagan South to Cushing, Oklahoma pipeline. An update is in order. On Wednesday, December 26, I managed to get video of six carloads of pipe arrive East Peoria on [...]

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