Illinois & Midland RR EP Turn 7-19-25

I usually get the Illinois & Midland transfers to East Peoria on the return southbound leg, but I finally encountered it early this afternoon on the northbound leg. 
 
I was suprised to see that the 25 TP&W covered hoppers on the head end were loaded. Western Grain Marketing's Atterberry elevator probably loaded soybeans for Incobrasa Industries at Gilman. The crew pulled to the north end of the TZPR yard, broke these off and doubled them over to the Nickel Plate. I assume a TP&W switch crew will grab them soon (they had not as of 1600 hours this afternoon). The only other possibility is that soybeans were transferred from barges to railcars at Incobrasa Industries' ex-American Milling Co. facility on Crystal Lake, just southwest of Pekin. But the tracks there are usually filled up with DDGS cars from the Iowa Interstate. So I'm leaning toward the former theory...


CAPTION: An Illinois & Midland Railroad Powerton Roadswitcher pulls through Wesley (Creve Coeur), Illinois early afternoon Saturday, July 19, 2025. IORY 5014 and IMRR 2108 have 63 cars. The crew ran through the Tazewell & Peoria Railroad's East Peoria Yard and doubled over the head 25 cars (loaded TP&W covered hoppers) onto the Nickel Plate.

- David P. Jordan

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