Tazewell & Peoria RR Local 11-30-25

Driving eastbound on Interstate 74 just before the bridge, I just happened to see the SW-10 and a few flat cars, so I exited onto Riverfront Drive and on the Bob Michel Bridge back across the river. Grant Street had too much snow, so I opted to wait at Alexander Avenue while the crew spotted two or three empty flat cars into Komatsu and pulled two truck chassis loads.

 

After pulling across Alexander Avenue, the crew left the train on the main and ladder track in the North Limit Yard, used the pocket to runaround the train and then pulled back south across Alexander Avenue. My hands were hurting (despite wearing gloves), so I decided to warm them up instead of sticking around to shoot switching operations at PMP Fermentation Products. 

 

This will be the train that switches Viridis Chemical between BioUrja Renewables LLC and the West Yard, if and when rail facilities are built. 

CAPTION: A Tazewell & Peoria Railroad local pulls northbound across Alexander Avenue in Peoria, Illinois early afternoon Sunday, November 30, 2025. After running around the train at the North Limit Yard two blocks north, it pulls back south. TZPR 1352 has eleven cars (two truck chassis loads just pulled from Komatsu, two ethyl alcohol empties, one non haz-mat tank car, one sodium hydroxide solution and four corn syrup loads for PMP Fermentation, and an empty flat car.)

- David P. Jordan