A third of TPWs roster is seen here screaming out of their yard in Hoosierlake, and through the future cornfields, into Remington, IN.
A six pack of TPW power crawl out of Goodland, IN with a long 80 car train for Peoria in tow. This crew will take the train to Gilman and tie down, and another crew, on at 11pm, will finish the jo... (more)
Just on the Illinois side of the IL/IN border, rests the quiet town of Sheldon. This evening, the silence is broken by TPWs Indiana Job coasting towards the interlocking diamond with KBS.
On the warmest day of the year so far, TPWs Indiana Job crawls out of Goodland, IN with 1/3 of TPWs roster for power. The leader being of BCOL decent.
TP&W's westbound train has just arrived at the East Peoria yard and is performing some switching before making transfers to other railroads and industries.
A morning TPW East bound thunders through the town of La Hogue with it’s 100+ car train with one of the two GP15s on the roster in charge. These GP15s tend to live over on the Indiana side in Ko... (more)
TP&W power waits on the bridge at P&PU Jct. while the westbound road train (1/4 mile behind me) switches it's inbound into the East Peoria yard. If the train passes the yard limit sign, it exits ... (more)
The TP&W road train passes by a former friend of the TP&W in the form of caboose, TPW 504. I was pleased to nab a shot passing by this caboose after spotting the caboose two months prior!
A TP&W road freight heading West into Eureka with the small town of Gridley, Illinois in the background as they parallel Route 24.
The TP&W road freight heading past the water tower and grain elevator of the small township of Gridley.
Alco Rs11 401 of the Toledo Peoria and Western rests outside the roundhouse In East Peoria in the summer of 1977. the Unit is in the roads old Green and White Colors at the time only Two or thre... (more)
A WB train crosses the Bloomer Line diamond in Chatsworth.
A WB train passes a tilt / semaphore signal for Eastbounds for the diamond w/ the Bloomer Line in town of Chatsworth.
TP&W puts on a "power parade" as they deliver grain loads to the ADM ethanol plant in Peoria.
The Westbound TP&W freight passing through El Paso, Illinois.