Peoria Station

 
This is the second time in about a month at the same location that I’ve seen this happen. The first time, a bicyclist was riding on the other side of the road in the other direction!
- David P. Jordan

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In Friday’s Journal Star:
“‘How bad does the community want a grocery store?’
That was the bottom-line question Tuesday night at a town meeting in Toulon. The Stark County seat’s only grocery store closed recently after an Elmwood man who had operated it rent-free for nearly two years concluded he still couldn’t make a profit.”
And I thought [...]

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Back in 2005, it was first reported that the City of Davenport, Iowa made plans to construct a rail spur from an existing rail line to a new industrial park located on the city’s northwest side. Known as the Eastern Iowa Industrial Center, it attracted the interest of Ferguson Enterprises, but due to lack of rail [...]

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PEORIA – The City of Peoria is planning to re-zone Growth Cell Two from “Light Industrial” to something else. You’ll recall that trail proponents for several years dangled rail-spurred industrial development  there like a carrot to the Peoria City Council to entice their support in converting the city-owned Kellar Branch into a recreational trail. Let’s [...]

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PEORIA – Is this barrier recently erected on the east side of Knoxville Avenue near Junction City the City of Peoria’s latest scheme to replace the venerable Kellar Branch with a recreational trail?
Perhaps the City of Peoria is feeling remorse over its costly and drawn-out failure to force the operating railroad off the line through the Federal [...]

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PEORIA – Bad news for trail proponents who hoped the City of Peoria, developers and the railroads operating on the Kellar Branch would make a deal to allow for trail development, as it appears the line is about to see an increase in traffic. From storage cars, anyway.
Empty LPG tank cars have been accumulating at [...]

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PEORIA – Today, a Vossloh Track Materials crew began lifting rails from Union Pacific’s Elm Industrial Lead.
The Elm Industrial is all that is left in Illinois of the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway, whose mainline between Minneapolis and Peoria once hosted first class freight trains. Following the Chicago & North Western’s absorption of the M&StL [...]

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In politics, it takes guts to stand up to the loudest group. Doing so requires one to embrace facts and stand for truth. The politicians who spoke to Friends of the Rock Island Trail Monday at Paparazzi Restaurant, as reported by the Journal Star, do neither. And they make embarrasingly ignorant (and ironic) assertions that are easily debunked.
First, [...]

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The December 10 edition of the Peoria Times-Observer carried an article on Recreational Trail Advocates’ latest meeting. It’s not on-line, but highlights are below.
The Recreational Trail Advocates met Nov. 3, reviewing where things stand in the effort to create a recreational trail along the Kellar Branch railroad tracks running through North Peoria and Peoria Heights.
It’s [...]

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The Surface Transportation Board decided Thursday, November 13, to reopen the Union Pacific’s petition to abandon its unused Elm Industrial Lead, which runs between Peoria and Middle Grove, and terminate the Offer of Financial Assistance (OFA) process. This action gives the Hanna City Trail Commission until May 12, 2009 to negotiate a deal with the [...]

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