First Rail Action of 2023 (January 2, TP&W, Union Pacific, BNSF and Illinois & Midland)

I didn't have to work today so I looked for local rail action that I'd normally miss. I wasn't disappointed. 

After two days of limited operations (at best), the floodgates opened Monday morning. The Tazewell & Peoria Railroad's East Peoria Yard quickly got plugged with constant train movements, arrivals and/or departures. 

Although I missed a few movements, I managed to capture a first (for me), as well as some normal operations. 

CAPTION: A Toledo, Peoria & Western Railway switch crew, possibly EP1, delivers Indiana crushed limestone to The Rogers Group/East Peoria Materials pit late-morning Monday, January 2, 2023. MQT 3407 has 15 cars. (My first video of TP&W switching this place since it opened in January 2004!)



CAPTION: Union Pacific LPD01, the Adams Street Yard-based "Peoria Wayfreight," is shown working on an overcast but mild Monday, January 2, 2023. First scene shows the crew shoving nine cars of KJRY and TP&W interchange across West Clarke Street toward Collier Yard in Bartonville. I missed the return trip but caught them making an East Peoria turn to interchange with the Tazewell & Peoria Railroad. UP 2746 and UP 6371 delivered 41 cars and returned with 21.



CAPTION: A Toledo, Peoria & Western Railway local, working an East Peoria to Collier Yard turn, rolls by Krause Ave. and S. Darst Street in Peoria, Illinois Monday afternoon, January 2, 2023. TPW 5015, IMRR 2108 and TPW 5009 delivered 20 cars to KJRY and Union Pacific at Collier Yard and returned to East Peoria with four cars from Union Pacific, adding cars at TZPR before tying up at its home terminal in late-afternoon.



CAPTION: BNSF Railway train M-GALPEI (Manifest, Galesburg IL to Peoria IL) rolls by Darst Street in Peoria, lllinois shortly after entering the Tazewell & Peoria Railroad late-afternoon Monday, January 2, 2023. BNSF 3946 and BNSF 5475 have 56 cars.



CAPTION: An Illinois & Midland Railroad Powerton Roadswitcher, shown on the return trip south on an East Peoria turn, rolls through Hilliards (Creve Coeur), Illinois on the Tazewell & Peoria Railroad (TZPR) late afternoon Monday, January 2, 2023. IMRR 1550 has 29 cars. Meanwhile, TZPR 1352 switches the ADM Grain Company dock.



- David P. Jordan

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