Tazewell & Peoria RR Industry Job 8-6-25

I had just parked at the downtown library when I heard the horn, so I got back in my car and investigated. I was surprised to see IMRR 2108 pulled an empty steel coil car and two tank cars. All three had apparently been left at the Limit Yard by a recent Iowa Interstate train. 

 

The TZPR crew had already switched BioUrja's Alcohol Tracks, so it was only a matter of adding the three cars to 17 in the West Yard before crossing the river into East Peoria. But first, they had to wait for a BNSF coal train to cross the river and head toward Crescent Yard. 

 

I've never seen them do it, but I understand ballast cars are loaded on the main between South and Cass streets in Peoria (the last scene in the video). Years ago, probably in 2002, I watched a P&PU switcher with three ballast cars wait at the ADM South Yard while ballast was being loaded. Apparently, the present location was determined sometime after the Tazewell & Peoria Railroad began leasing P&PU on November 1, 2004. 

CAPTION: A Tazewell & Peoria Railroad Industry Job approaches Persimmon Street in Peoria, Illinois late-afternoon Wednesday, August 6, 2025. Three cars were pulled from the North Limit Yard, and came off the Iowa Interstate. Later, it is shown adding 17 cars at the West Yard. Finally, it shown at South Street before crossing the river. IMRR 2108 has 20 cars.

- David P. Jordan