Peoria Station

I caught Iowa Interstate's ZENOE about midday today. The crew stopped at the North Limit Yard to drop 22 manifest on the head end, so I left.  CAPTION: Iowa Interstate train ZENOE (Grain Loads, [Varies] to Peoria IL) rolls through Mossville, Illinois midday Saturday, May 2, 2026. IAIS 701, IAIS 152 and IAIS 519 have 130 cars (22 manifest, 108 grain loads). The manifest cars were set out at the North Limit Yard and the grain train was delivered to Canadian National on TZPR's Pekin mainline.   I was on the east side of the river when I heard BNSF's M-GALPEI get permission from Darst Street to East Peoria. Friday's train was a day late. This one was made up mostly of loads, including ten-car and eight-car blocks of ADM grain product traffic (perhaps BNSF has the Clinton, Iowa to TZPR business now??? If not, Marshall, Minn. and Columbus, Neb. plants might send corn germ to Decatur), three plastic loads and some nitrogen tank cars. There were eight OZIX (Ozinga) 2-bay co...

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...