TZPR Local, BNSF M-PEIGAL 7-10-23

After spending some quality time at the downtown Library this afternoon, I headed toward the southside in hopes of seeing BNSFs M-GALPEI. Turns out, the train had already arrived East Peoria and the crew had coupled their units to M-PEIGAL. But minutes after my arrival, I caught the Tazewell & Peoria Railroad's old "Kickapoo Job" (now one of those "Industry" jobs) going by. 


CAPTION: A Tazewell & Peoria RR local is shown at S. Darst Street in Peoria, Illinois early evening Monday, July 10, 2023. TZPR 1351 is pulling twelve cars from Kickapoo Yard to East Peoria.

I waited long enough for the Tazewell & Peoria Railroad dispatcher to give M-PEIGAL permission to leave East Peoria for S. Darst Street. Due to fading sunlight, I shot the train coming across the river, but decided to shoot the whole train at S. Darst Street. I knew it needed to stop so the conductor could line the switch, but this action was brief.

Hoping to capture a final runby, I waited at W. Farmington Road. Sunlight faded and shadows lengthened. It was almost eight o'clock, so I decided to head back down Kickapoo Creek Road where I could see M-PEIGAL approaching the Harman Highway bridge. I settled for a runby here, sun already behind the trees. 

It appears that that Cargill Oil Storage operation at the Viterra (ex-Gavilon) facility off Wesley Road is shipping product on BNSF. Tonight's M-PEIGAL had seven loaded, not-haz-mat tank cars on the head end. As most had CRGX (Cargill) markings, it is likely these contained soybean oil. The empty autorack was on Thursday's M-GALPEI, so it was apparently misrouted. 


CAPTION: BNSF Railway train M-PEIGAL (Manifest, Peoria IL to Galesburg IL) crosses the Tazewell & Peoria Railroad's Illinois River Bridge early evening Monday, July 10, 2023. Later, the train is shown at Krause Ave. about to enter home rails. Finally, the train rolls under Harman Highway (Rt. 116) shortly after departing Peoria. BNSF 3821 and BNSF 5470 have 50 cars (32 loads, 18 empties), including an empty autorack misrouted on Thursday's M-GALPEI.

David P. Jordan

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