TP&W light power returns to their yards after delivering grain to Pekin.
There are still some warbonnets out there in decent paint!
Luckily, the rains left before the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus train arrived in town.
Once kings on the AT&SF Transcon, these GP20's are at the literal end of their lives.
TZPR's transfer job from the Iowa Interstate passes the stately ex-Rock Island station on the Peoria riverfront, once again the home of fine dining.
CN/IC's Peoria Local heads south past the elevator at Creve Couer late on a Sunday afternoon.
I was surprised when BNSF pulled this empty ethanol train out of Chillicothe with a single unit to head right up the 1% grade of Edelstein Hill. Here the train starts it run up the Hill at Houlih... (more)
4 GE ES44AC's would seem to be ample power for this empty coal train.
Spring brings the return of the FP9's for freight action in Western Illinois.
NS D47 enters TZPR rails at P&PU Jct.
UP's Engineering Special heads into South Pekin for its scheduled crew change.
UP's Engineering Special starts the climb up Radnor Hill on the Peoria Sub.
KJRY's "Canton Cannonball" awaits westward movement on a typical Midwestern Spring day.
TP&W's Galesburg Job passes through Pottstown with East Peoria-bound intermodal loads.
NS D47 makes its departure from the TZPR yards.
