KJRY Local, Iowa Interstate PEDAV

After work, I went into East Peoria to check for local rail action. TZPR radio chatter immediately tipped me off to a Keokuk Junction Railway local waiting at Iowa Junction for instructions into the East Peoria Yard. A pair of BNSF units had just cleared TZPR property at Darst Street on their way west. I assume the crew had just dropped an empty Decatur-bound gluten feed train on the double track for Canadian National. I stuck around to catch the KJRY local. 


CAPTION: The Keokuk Junction Railway's East Peoria turn runs on the Tazewell & Peoria Railroad at Krause Avenue and then at Bridge Junction mid-afternoon Wednesday, November 19, 2025. LTEX 6437, LTEX 3837 and LTEX 3836 have seven cars.

Despite the short days, I stuck around to capture the Iowa Interstate train. Overcast stole even more light. Soon, I will only be railfanning on weekends...


CAPTION: Iowa Interstate Railroad train of potash empties, PEDAV (Peoria IL to Davenport IA), rolls along the Tazewell & Peoria Railroad at the Ft. of Chicago Street in Peoria, Illinois late-afternoon Wednesday, November 19, 2025. IAIS 519, named for one of the railroad's founders, Dr. Paul H. Banner, has 102 cars.
 
- David P. Jordan

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