Tazewell & Peoria RR Action 3-6-22

On my way home from church early this afternoon, I came across some Tazewell & Peoria Railroad activity. First, a local crossed the river with cars for BioUrja's alcohol tracks. TZPR 1521 has eleven empty tank cars (some used as buffers).

I'm thinking the former ADM loadout has space for eight cars (four on each of two tracks), so three of these cars might be buffers. When I worked for two non-consecutive weeks in August and September 1995 through a temp service at Act Distilling Co's bottling operation, I passed this loadout daily, and I remember an eight-car capacity. However, an all-weather enclosure was built in 2009, and it appears from Google satellite views that the enclosure built in 2009 extends far enough that each track could have been extended to accommodate at least one more car apiece. 

A BNSF coal train went next. Right behind it was a Tazewell & Peoria RR Local out of Kickapoo Job. IMRR 1550 has 14 cars, including an empty covered hopper (buffer car?), two asphalt empties, five scrap metal empties and six coiled wire rod loads.

- David P. Jordan