TP&W-CSXT Empty and Loaded Grain Trains 8-30-25

Saturday, I decided to drive along the TP&W as far as Effner, checking on recent infrastructure expansion. 

Along the way, I noticed a CSX grain train on the Prairie Central Co-Op loop at Greenfield (just west of Chenoa) and found the three-track rail loop on Incobrasa Industries property extended on the south side, and possibly complete. 

Lingering in Gilman, I noticed a westbound moving along the TP&W in the distant north. A closer looked confirmed that it was a run-through train of grain empties from CSX. I wasn't sure if a Hoosierlift crew was going to drop it between Gilman and La Hogue, but when I waited at the latter, it came by me at mainline speed. Good show! 

After checking new siding construction on the TP&W at Effner, I returned west and encountered the Chenoa train just past Forrest, turned around and shot video in town. 


CAPTION: On Saturday, August 30, 2025, the Toledo, Peoria & Western Railway ran both a westbound empty CSX grain train to Cruger, Illinois and pulled a loaded one back east from Chenoa. Shown westbound at La Hogue (just west of Gilman) in early afternoon, CSXT 979 CSXT 544 have 90 grain empties. By late-afternoon, the loaded eastbound train out of Chenoa had reached Forrest. Also 90 cars, CSXT 28 and CSXT 5437 were on the point.
 
- David P. Jordan

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