Keokuk Junction Rwy. EP Turn, TP&W Local 7-17-23

I missed the Keokuk Junction Railway's local coming into the Tazewell & Peoria Railroad's East Peoria Yard. I probably couldn't have caught it anyway, but they did something unusual. 

The two GP20Ds - CEFX 2022 and CEFX 2014 - were delivered here for eventual interchange (reportedly CN) as their time with KJRY is done. LTEX 6437 cut off and left them on the Creve Coeur Team Track and then returned to the other two units. The train left with only three cars. 


CAPTION: The Keokuk Junction Railway's East Peoria Turn runs its return leg to Kolbe (Mapleton), Illinois late-afternoon and early-evening Monday, July 17, 2023. LTEX 3848, PREX 2018 and LTEX 6437 left the Tazewell & Peoria Railroad with just three cars. After waiting for a TP&W local to switch out Union Pacific interchange for them at Collier Yard, seven more cars were added. The train is shown crossing the Illinois River and at Darst Street in Peoria, and at Sanitation Road in Bartonville, and again south of Bartonville.

Between the second and third KJRY scenes in the video above, I watched TP&W 5010 switch Union Pacific and Keokuk Junction Railway interchange cars at Sanitation Road, located at Collier Yard's east end. 

The TP&W acts as intermediate switching carrier between KJRY and Union Pacific, which it charges the latter $350 per carload. 


CAPTION: A TP&W local crew switches Union Pacific and Keokuk Junction interchange at Collier Yard in Bartonville, Illinois early evening Monday, July 17, 2023. TPW 5010 is shown shoving and pulling cuts of cars on Sanitation Road.
- David P. Jordan

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