BNSF M-GALPEI, TP&W EP-X

Just before leaving work this afternoon, I received a heads up that BNSF Railway's M-GALPEI was heading through Yates City and then Elmwood a short time later. So I decided to intercept it. 

I swung around Kickapoo Creek Road with Harmon Highway in view and sure enough, and me and the train met moments later. I had to wait awhile for it to receive permission to enter Tazewell & Peoria Railroad property at S. Darst Street. 


CAPTION: BNSF Railway train M-GALPEI (Manifest, Galesburg IL to Peoria IL) enters the Tazewell & Peoria Railroad at S. Darst Street in Peoria, Illinois for the final leg to East Peoria late-afternoon Monday, December 16, 2024. BNSF 8287 and BNSF 3813 have 19 cars.

Local railroads were busy tonight. Once M-GALPEI got clear in the yard, a Tazewell & Peoria Railroad local with TZPR 1351 had permission from the East Lead (in East Peoria) to Iowa Junction, presumably a PM Yard/Lead Job with cars for Alter scrap yards, and perhaps Peoria River Terminal and Seneca Petroleum as well. Liberty Steel & Wire's temporary shutdown must have led to the abolishment of the regular Industry Job to and from Kickapoo Yard. 
 
Iowa Interstate PESI was led by IAIS 718. I did not see it depart, but it followed the TZPR job across the river. I missed it because I spent some time at the downtown library, delayed because of my wait for the BNSF manifest. Before heading home, saw a TPW East Peoria Extra. 
 
Radio chatter indicated that TZPR 1351 was to return to East Peoria after the TP&W job cleared Iowa Junction. After TZPR 1351 had cleared into the East Peoria Yard, BNSF's M-PEIGAL was cleared to depart for S. Darst Street with ten cars (six loads, four empties).
 
Finally, a trio of TP&W units, running engine lite, left the TZPR for TP&Ws East Peoria Yard. I did not get the numbers. 


CAPTION: Toledo, Peoria & Western Railway local EP-X (East Peoria Extra) rolls across West Washington Street in East Peoria, Illinois. TZPR 2133 has eleven cars for Mapleton industries.
 
David P. Jordan

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