The KJ arrives back at Mapleton after making a transfer run to the TZPR.
The Keokuk Junction Railway delivers one of the last 135 car empty Duck Creek coal train to the TZPR. The BNSF will pick up the train to be taken west and reloaded. The second and third units we... (more)
Keokuk Jct. empty "Duck Creek" coal train, lead by a FP9, followed by 3 GP20's.
Unbelievably, waiting to pull a PRB coal train to the power plant.
Keokuk Junction Railway lineup at the Kolbe depot.
Keokuk Junction freight heading to the Tazewell & Peoria yards. Caterpillar rubber mixer is in the background.
The F-units head out TZPR's Creve Couer Yard in Peoria. This job is crossing a very high Illinois River near Bridge Jct. With the river high 3-4 tug boat crews are monitoring tugs around the river... (more)
Peoria & Western light power moves past the TZPR Kickapoo Yard on its way back to Kolbe.
I'd say F-units hauling freight "rocks".
The classy pair of units roll westbound through the Glasford.
The F-unit set runs light west bound.
Peoria and Western F-units await their crew.
Keokuk Jct. Railway freight makes its way along US 24 south of Bartonville late on a sometimes sunny afternoon.