Peoria Station

Running a day early for some reason.    The block of 29 empty flatcars on the head end look like the kind used to haul concrete crossties, but why they are moving empty to Peoria is not clear.  CAPTION: BNSF Railway train M-GALPEI (Manifest, Galesburg IL to Peoria IL) rolls by Rockhill Road near Oak Hill, Illinois early evening Sunday, June 1, 2025. BNSF 9237 and BNSF 5655 have 51 cars. Note 29 BNSF flat cars on the head end.   Also notable is that late this afternoon, I noticed three loaded ballast hoppers and two rip-rap loaded air-dump cars parked on the east end of the New Long Main in Peoria. I'm thinking a bridge replacement project is planned somewhere along the Peoria Subdivision.    - David P. Jordan

On my way to the downtown library early this afternoon I checked out the Tazewell & Peoria Railroad's East Peoria and noticed an Illinois & Midland RR transfer that had just arrived. I stuck around for signs that it would return south shortly, and it did.  CAPTION: An Illinois & Midland Railroad Powerton Roadswitcher is shown on its return trip from sister Tazewell & Peoria Railroad's East Peoria Yard early afternoon Saturday, May 17, 2025. Locations are Wesley, Hilliards and Pekin, Illinois. A fourth scene shows a runby of the train's power at Distillery Road in Pekin. IORY 5014 and IMRR 2108 have 43 cars.   I missed BNSF's M-GALPEI Friday afternoon, and assumed that when the crew parked their power on the Creve Coeur Team Track, a relief crew might take it M-PEIGAL west later in the evening. Turns out, M-PEIGAL ran Saurday afternoon. I was at the downtown library when it departed, but since I knew it could not be too far west, searched for and enc...

Union Pacific train CNAIM (Coal, N. Antelope Mine WY to Metropolis IL) rolls by W. Farmington Road near Peoria, Illinois late-afternoon Monday, October 10, 2022. UP 5807 and UP 8200 were on the point. UP 6844 is DPU. This train does not normally move via the Peoria Subdivision. Normally, they're routed via Kansas City. Coal is transferred to barges at American Electric Power's Cook Coal Terminal for movement along the Ohio River to subsidary Indiana Michigan Power's Rockport, Indiana generating station.  Less than five minutes later, BNSF Railway train E-PEBBTM (Empties, Peoria/Bartonville IL to Black Thunder Mine WY) raced by W. Farmington Road.  Earlier, I had noticed that a TP&W crew pulled this train across the TZPR bridge until the rear units cleared the BNSF connection at Darst Street. A BNSF crew boarded and received permission to head west. The whole train is shown near Oak Hill and again at Yates City. BNSF 6371 and BNSF 8822 were on the point; BNSF 6225 is DPU...