Peoria Station

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• 1    Pat Latz // May 3, 2009 at 12:15 pm

  Ip, IN 03MAY09

  David -

  Couple of questions. First the Wind Mill Train of Friday, May
  1, 2009. Who inspected the train and the cargo at Galesburg,
  IL prior to the hand off to The “TPW”? Further, do you have
  any idea as to what the “tie-down deficiency was”? Further,
  estinated value of the damages?

  Second, with the present secretarty of The Department of
  Transportation (“DOT”) residing in the Peoria Congressional
  District, what efforts, if any, are be taken to bring AMTRAK
  Service in two ( 2) ways to The Greater Peoria Area (“GPA”)?

  Looking at The Chicago to St. Louis Corridor without having
  to go through Bloomington/Normal, IL and Chicago to the
  West Coast, either The south Basin or The gay Bay?

  Your considerations shall be of mutual value.

  Fyi,

  Pat Latz

• 2    David P. Jordan // May 3, 2009 at 12:34 pm

  (1) The train was routed over the Union Pacific from the Port of Vancouver, Washington, so it was not routed via Galesburg. I didn’t get the memo about who inspected the train.

  (2) it will depend on the results of the feasibility study, now due in July. Secy. LaHood now says he needs to have an open mind about these issues.

  (3) Not following you on this.

• 3    Stuart H. Thomson // Dec 2, 2009 at 8:55 am

  Hello David. I need an expert about railroading, especially the Keokuk Junction Railway Co. Also on their route through Cuba, Ill., Canton, Ill. to Mapleton and Pekin. I need to know if the railroad is good enough to move a 10,000 ton coal train once a day from Cuba/Canton to the Illinois river for transloading to barges for move to Louisana. I have visited the coal pile in Fiatt, Ill. and there are 27 million tons of coal that must be moved to Mexico. I have driven the KJR rail line and question if a train could move at 15 miles per hour over it. Can you help?

• 4    David Greenberg // Sep 15, 2010 at 8:31 pm

  Dave,

  Have you heard of the genset locomotives ADM purchased? Any idea where they are going?

  David in Az

• 5    David P. Jordan // Sep 18, 2010 at 4:38 pm

  Hi David,

  I hadn’t heard that. Since RailServe is contracted to switch ADM’s East Plant, I doubt we’ll see them there.

• 6    John Richmond // Feb 8, 2011 at 8:03 pm

  David…

  As I continue to purchase various Morning Sun books for the Alpha Park Library, I have revelations of one sort or another. But I am puzzled. I bought vol. 4 (or…is it 3…the memory goes, and I’m too lazy to look it up) of the C&NW in Color and *finally* understood the business of the Northwestern executing strange moves on the M&StL to get to the coal mines west of Peoria. Because there is a photo of *three* bridges across Kickapoo Creek, side by side, i.e., the C&NW, the CB&Q, and the M&StL. One day I walked down to where the bridge abutments would have been, so I saw the evidence. However, in order for three bridges to be in place, was Creek Road aligned somewhat differently than it is now? I know that the curve going up the hill is a tight one–so tight, in fact, that I don’t see how Creek Road could have *fit* in the space between three rail lines and the bluffs. Did the road simply narrow to a point at which only one car could go north or south at a time, with no room to pass, in order for the M&StL to have its own roadbed before heading west?

  I feel like I’m missing something obvious here, but the photo in the book is cut off at a point at which one cannot see the road–just the bridges.

  Thanks.

  John Richmond

  P.S. When the Peoria PL is finished with its renovations, I have considered going downtown to search for older city-county maps, dating from the fifties or early sixties, which might enlighten me on the placement of Creek Road, three rail lines, and the creek itself. Of course, I’ve been meaning to do something like this ever since I arrived at Alpha Park in 2001!

• 7    David P. Jordan // Feb 8, 2011 at 8:52 pm

  Hi John,

  Kickapoo Creek Road’s alignment and width has changed somewhat since the C&NW removed the original M&StL tracks east (geographically south) of “Allen’s Curve” at the bottom of the hill c. 1970 (the last 1.5 miles or so to Bartlett Yard were abandoned November 30, 1968). Frank P. Donovan’s 1950 book, MILEPOSTS ON THE PRAIRIE, shows the eastbound wayfreight from Monmouth at that spot. The track ran pretty tightly between the hill and the road.

• 8    Ken Luzbetak // Dec 23, 2011 at 12:32 pm

  I’m researching the existance/non-exsistance of the Chicago, Joliet and Peoria Railway (circa 1874). Some maps, Poor’s 1874 Manual of Railroads, and the State of Illinois Railroad and Warehouse Comission records mention it, yet little else is avaiable. I’ve concentrated on the Joliet end, as that’s where I grew up. Any suggestion the CJ&P actually made it to Peoria? I’ve had some hits that suggest it only made it to Streator, IL before vanishing. Thanks!

• 9    David P. Jordan // Dec 23, 2011 at 11:22 pm

  Hi Ken,

  Unfortunately, I know little of the Chicago, Joliet & Peoria Railway, except it never reached Peoria.

• 10    Alex // Dec 3, 2012 at 3:08 pm

  Just wanted to say thanks for answering questions and all the work you put in to find information about area industry and transportation. You page is a daily stop for my news/information readings.

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