BNSF M-GALPEI, TP&W Transfer 3-6-26

By the time I left work on this stormy Friday afternoon, I knew that Union Pacific's MPECL had already left and that Norfolk Southern local D49 had come and gone. So I went into Peoria thinking BNSF's M-GALPEI or M-PEIGAL could be here. 
 
Sure enough, M-GALPEI was actually blocking Sanger Street, waiting for permission to cross the river. So I shot video of the train at Bridge Junction from my car as a heavy thunderstorm approached. My wait was brief. I left for the downtown library, checked for M-PEIGAL and found it still in East Peoria. Darkness fell and left as I had other plans. 


CAPTION: BNSF Railway train M-GALPEI (Manifest, Galesburg IL to Peoria IL) rolls enters Bridge Junction on the Tazewell & Peoria Railroad mid-afternoon Friday, March 6, 2026. BNSF 4233 and BNSF 8156 have 35 cars.
 
After bagging the inbound BNSF "local," I heard the TZPR Jacksonville dispatcher give a TP&W train permission to leave the north end of the East Peoria Yard for home, so I crossed the river and caught IORY 3492 with 20 cars of interchange from TZPR. Due to raindrops, I shot this one with my phone, but the lighting is a little distorted. 


CAPTION: A Toledo, Peoria & Western Railway local pulls interchange from the Tazewell & Peoria Railroad's East Peoria Yard to the home terminal late-afternoon Friday, March 6, 2026. IORY 3492 has 20 cars.
 
- David P. Jordan

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