Union Pacific MPECL 5-20-25
After catching LPD01 on Monday afternoon, I decided to leave work two hours early on Tuesday to catch MPECL. As usual, my plan does not always unfold as I hoped, but I did catch the train, finally, at Camp Grove.
I left work at 1:00pm, and drove directly to Adams Street Yard to confirm that it was gone, which it was. So I headed up I-474, Route 6, US 150, Willow Knolls Drive and finally Brauer Road and waited a few minutes, hoping to hear MPECL growling up Pioneer Hill.
While I did hear sounds I thought could be MPECL, I was smart enough to look north to see the rear end fading in the distance. I could not catch it until Speer, and by then it was too late to set up for video. So Camp Grove was the next spot I tried, and succeeded.
On my way back to Peoria, I caught radio chatter between the dispatcher and train crew. She asked them if they were at Milepost 61. They told her they were at Milepost 47. She had informed that that a vehicle was hit by a train at 61 (Route 90 near Edelstein) and that they were the only train out there at the time.
I backtracked to Edelstein and found a dump truck having gone into the ditch with its right side smashed. The drive lost his brakes and swerved, but hit and damaged two cars on the rear of MPECL. With 75 cars, the crew was unaware of the collision. See below for local a local news story.
Those rear two cars were set out at Storage Siding.
CAPTION: Union Pacific train MPECL (Manifest, Peoria IL to Clinton IA) clears Camp Grove, Illinois mid-afternoon Tuesday, May 20, 2025. UP 5565 and UP 7986 have 75 cars.
- David P. Jordan
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