TP&W at Morton 3-18-25

Like usual, I went to Peoria after work. Enroute to the downtown library, I hoped to see the Keokuk Junction Railway's East Peoria turn. With no sign of it, I crossed the river and found CN 2541 and CN 8892 on the Creve Coeur Team Track. A couple of vehicles parked nearby indicated the L557 crew had arrived.

 

About that time, I learned the Norfolk Southern local D49 had already been cleared to depart the Tazewell & Peoria Railroad, and that the TP&W would follow with a lite engine move to Crandall and then Morton to fetch the tank car spotted at Fort Transfer on March 8. 

 

I knew I was too late to see the NS, but I never miss a chance to catch a train where I live!

 

Intrerestingly, as I waited along the NS at N. Main Street, just outside of Morton, for the TP&W train heading back to East Peoria, I learned that the KJRY local had been cleared to enter Tazewell & Peoria Railroad property at Iowa Junction...

 

...and as I drove I-474, I could see Canadian National's L557 coming down the TZPR Pekin mainline at Hilliards. 

 

You get what you can, because what you miss now, you'll see soon. 

CAPTION: A Toledo, Peoria & Western Railway switch crew came out of East Peoria mid-afternoon Tuesday, March 18, 2025, to fetch the tank car spotted there on March 8. HESR 2107 is shown arriving Crandall on Norfolk Southern's Bloomington District, switching to the Morton Industrial Spur and trundling through town to Fort Transfer's spot just west of Jefferson Street. We then follow the train leaving town, switching back to the NS, and finally rolling toward East Peoria at N. Main Street.

 

- David P. Jordan