Tazewell & Peoria RR Transfer to TP&W, Iowa Interstate PESI 12-30-24

After work this afternoon, I checked to see if Iowa Interstate train PESI was ready to leave.
 
Sure enough, IAIS 152 was on the point of the train, parked on the Tazewell & Peoria Railroad's West Lead and stretched into the East Peoria Yard. I didn't know how long it had been there so I headed for the downtown library. But radio chatter confirmed that a Tazewell & Peoria Railroad crew had received permission to depart the East Peoria Yard for the TP&W yard.
 
I immediately headed for a bridge and set up at E. Washington Street. I nearly missed it due to impatience, but then I didn't hear a horn at N. Main Street. Fortunately, E. Camp Street has a convenient U-turn as well as a place to park trackside. 


CAPTION: A Tazewell & Peoria Railroad yard job rolls under Interstate 74 in East Peoria, Illinois late-afternoon Monday, December 30, 2024. TZPR 1351 has 20 cars (19 grain empties, one alcohol load) for the Toledo, Peoria & Western Railway. 

I left the downtown library about 5:30 and heard a locomotive horn as soon as I was inside my car. So I made my way to that bright street lamp at Morton Street, but quickly realized I was too late. So Alexander Avenue is a decent substitute, with the added bonus that patrons leaving Alexander Street Steakhouse shine their lights on the train as it passes. 


CAPTION: Iowa Interstate manifest PESI (Peoria IL to Silvis IL) rolls along the Tazewell & Peoria Railroad's Uptown Division across Alexander Avenue in Peoria, Illinois early evening Monday, December 30, 2024. IAIS 152 has 80 cars.

- David P. Jordan

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