Peoria Station

I haven’t had time to blog lately. That should change shortly. I will be posting a Peoria metro map showing area rail lines and customer locations. I’m also planning a post on the area’s last big railroad-spurred economic development initiative – TP&W’s five-zone industrial land sales from the mid-1950s through the 1970s. The Mapleton industrial [...]

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I’ve been busy lately, but more posts are coming. In time for Railroad Days, I plan a look at Galesburg and its rail operations and industries. Sometime this month or next I will post the annual update on rail users in the six-county port authority region.
Thanks for visiting,
- David P. Jordan

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I haven’t had time to do any blogging for a few days, but I should have a few posts up before the end of the week. These will be regarding an Illinois Prairie Railroad Foundation event this Saturday, Iowa Interstate Railroad’s “Steam Train Ride for Flood Relief” (Quad Cities) and some analysis of The Heart of Illinois [...]

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I haven’t had time to blog the past few days, but I will do so shortly. I will soon post a writeup about my planespotting trip to Chicago-O’Hare International Airport last Saturday, and probably some railroad-related stuff.
In the meantime, you can use this blog post to ask questions or suggest some future subject matter.
Thanks for coming here.
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I’ve enjoyed blogging at wpgrr.com for nearly three years, but continuing spam issues and the apparent loss of image posting has soured me. So tonight, I launch a new transportation blog called PeoriaStation. The name suggests a railroad theme, but my interest in all things transportation past and present will be fodder for this blog.
Good transportation, [...]

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