Tazewell & Peoria RR Industry Job, KJRY East Peoria Turn, BNSF M-PEIGAL 11-5-25

I caught this Tazewell & Peoria Railroad Industry Job enroute from Kickapoo Yard to East Peoria. Highlights include an empty CN boxcar that is likely in zinc ingot service from British Columbia to Liberty Steel & Wire Co., and four empty ex-CN gondolas marked EMRX (Northern Metals Recycling), indicating a Minnesota origin for scrap metal.  


CAPTION: A Tazewell & Peoria Railroad Industry Job (2 or 3) rolls by Sanger Street in Peoria, Illinois toward the Illinois River enroute from Kickapoo Yard to East Peoria mid-afternoon Wednesday, November 5, 2025. TZPR 1352 has 19 cars.
 
The Keokuk Junction Railway local followed close behind from Iowa Junction with a short train. I stuck around long enough to catch the local on its westbound run back to Mapleton. The 19 ALAB-marked covered hoppers on this one are presumably in corn germ service from Keokuk to Decatur (via Norfolk Southern) as we don't normally see them loaded with corn or soybeans at Sciota, but being blocked together makes me wonder if that is actually what is going on. 


CAPTION: The Keokuk Junction Railway's Mapleton-East Peoria turn is shown at Sanger Street in Peoria, Illinois mid-afternoon Wednesday, November 5, 2025. LTEX 6437, LTEX 3837 and LTEX 3836 has BUGX 149 and 11 cars for the Tazewell & Peoria Railroad. In late-afternoon, the train departed East Peoria with LTEX 3836, LTEX 3837 and LTEX 6437, and 27 cars.

Before the KJRY local departed, I caught BNSF's M-PEIGAL, which is unusual for Wednesday. I assume that M-GALPEI arrived earlier this afternoon. Perhaps this was supposed to be Monday's train, but ran two days late due to crew issues? 


CAPTION: BNSF Railway train M-PEIGAL (Manifest, Peoria IL to Galesburg IL) is shown at Sanger Street in Peoria, Illinois late-afternoon Wednesday, November 5, 2025. Later, it rolls out of town on home rails near the Ft. of West Clarke Street. BNSF 7378 and BNSF 3925 have 13 cars (ten loads, three empties).

- David P. Jordan

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