TZPR Industry Job 2-25-25

The Iowa Interstate ran PESI too early for me to capture. It was reportedly nearing the North Limit Yard around 1400 hours. When I swung by the Tazewell & Peoria Railroad's Creve Coeur diesel shop, Canadian National's L557 was just getting ready to leave the Creve Coeur Team Track with CN 5726 and CN 2541, which will probably be "turned" before coupling to its train. I did not stick around as it will likely be dark before departure. 

 

I did see a TZPR Industry Job at the West Yard as I drove the Cedar Street Bridge in Peoria. No sooner did I pull into Leland Street did the crew ask for instructions to East Peoria. The first five cars are empty corn syrup tanks from PMP Fermentation Products. Behind that is an empty sodium hydroxide solution tank car (UN 1824). The seventh car, clearly loaded based on pressed truck coil springs, doesn't look like typical cars used to handle S-45/sodium gluconate. But that may be what it contains. A Komatsu truck chassis load is on the eighth car. The other eight are from BioUrja Renewables LLC. There were three industrial alcohol (UN 1170) and two beverage alcohol loads (UN 3065). The tanks just behind the Komatsu load might have been empty, possibly used as buffer cars, but the second to last car was clearly loaded, though with what I'm unsure. Some kind of crude corn oil is my guess. 

CAPTION: A Tazewell & Peoria Railroad Industry Job is shown rolling toward Bridge Junction in Peoria, Illinois mid-afternoon Tuesday, February 25, 2025. IMRR 43 has 16 cars from PMP Fermentation Products, Komatsu and BioUrja Renewables LLC.

- David P. Jordan