TP&W Wind Turbine Tower/Manifest - March 22, 2018



I finally caught the TP&W hauling wind turbine tower sections...

...for the western Logan County project. I've previously shot video and pics of wind turbine components being hauled on the Toledo, Peoria & Western, but back in 2008-2009 when my video was of lesser quality.  

Thursday, I received a heads up that this train was at Gilman, Illinois. So I drove east on US 24 and found it stopped at Weston for a crew change. It wasn't long before the relief crew took the train westward. There were 64 wind turbine tower loads, which came from the Union Pacific at Watseka. These were added to 42 cars of manifest traffic left at Gilman by the Indiana Local Tuesday afternoon.

In the above video, TP&W locomotives 5010 & 3442 lead the 106-car train at Weston (whole train), Chenoa, west of Meadows, Gridley, El Paso (whole train), Eureka and Washington. The towers are bound for sister Tazewell & Peoria Railroad's East Peoria Yard. 


- David P. Jordan

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  1. ShawnMarch 27, 2018 at 5:16 AM

    David,
    What is the operating region of the Indiana Local and what is its schedule? What would be your guess as to the destination of that last car lumber load?
    Shawn

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    1. David P. JordanMarch 27, 2018 at 5:28 PM

      The Indiana Local is a daytime job, and crews will go on duty in the 7:00-8:00ish time frame. It seems that this job makes a Gilman turn on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Runs to Logansport have been reported on Wednesday and Friday. Transfer runs to CSX at Lafayette have been reported on Sunday, but probably run on at least one other day to support twice-weekly road trains between East Peoria and Effner (or however far they can run). Trains are known to tie up some days before returning to the home terminal.

      That lumber load is consigned to Morton Buildings Inc., which has its material transloaded at TP&W's East Peoria Yard instead of delivered directly to its Morton, Illinois truss manufacturing facility.

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