Interesting day with CN, BNSF, NS and TP&W.

This  afternoon was  interesting besides going to an appointment and getting some stuff taken care of I managed to snag four train in Creve Coure and East Peoria, Illinois.  THe first one was around noon probably a little before when a CN local comes by so i park off to the side off Wesley to film. Just as I was filming the last part of the train a line of BNSF locomotives pass by on the other track.  I catch them again down the line.  Later in the afternoon I go snooping around for anything I might see before going home I hear about an NS train near the East Peoria yard so I turn off Washington street and sure enough they were there.  When I got there only one NS locomotive was coupled to some hoppers which looked empty.  A white van was next to it and I see another NS locomotive come up, cross washington then backed up to the  train.  They coupled but they had to wait on a few moves.  One turned out to be TP&W.  I heard TP&W mentioned and another was told to hang around Sanger street til the bridge was down and watch signals.  I have no idea who it was probably TZPR since prior I heard one of their locomotives mention #1351 I think.  I film the TP&W then go to Farmdale road to wait for the NS train.  Naturally just my luck someone pulls up and bugs me but they left.   The NS pulls on by but the sun kind of made it a challenge.  Ugh.  This is my first train I have caught at Farmdale road so far and hopefully not the last.  The TP&W train was sitting in their yard when I  started to leave so no idea if it headed east or not.

Comments

  1. David P. JordanMarch 14, 2017 at 8:00 PM

    A few comments...

    (1) The TP&W train was a transfer run from TZPR to the TP&W's own East Peoria Yard. Looks like tank cars carrying nitrogen fertilizer solution. An empty covered hopper is heading back to Incobrasa Industries at Gilman.

    (2) The CN local carries symbol L56491 (L = Local, 564 = number assigned to this train, 9 = Division and 1 = First Section). Eight anhydrous ammonia tank cars on the rear. BNSF power is most likely heading to Grove to pick up a feed train which had come off the CN earlier.

    (3) Norfolk Southern Train 403...coal empties heading back to the Shay Mine near Carlinville, Illinois. Train had earlier run on the Iowa Interstate from Cedar Rapids to Peoria as CRPE.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Traingirl36March 14, 2017 at 8:23 PM

    Thank you. The NS I knew from what you said a while back about it going to some mine down south with empties. The other had no idea what they were carrying or where they were off too.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Traingirl36March 14, 2017 at 8:24 PM

    Where is the grove by the way? IN Pekin by the big cemetery? or further down the line?

    ReplyDelete
  4. David P. JordanMarch 14, 2017 at 8:39 PM

    Grove is the location of a crossover midpoint between Wesley and Pekin. It also used to be the point at which the Gulf Mobile & Ohio trains entered and left with P&PU. It is located just south of the park in North Pekin by River Drive, but out of public view, unfortunately.

    ReplyDelete
  5. David P. JordanMarch 14, 2017 at 8:40 PM

    "...left with P&PU." = "...left P&PU."

    ReplyDelete
  6. David P. JordanMarch 14, 2017 at 8:40 PM

    This comment has been removed by the author.

    ReplyDelete
  7. Traingirl36March 14, 2017 at 8:45 PM

    Ok thanks. I asked because I seen grain cars down past the cemetery unless CN picked them up and they were the cars I seen.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Coal mines around Norris

Image
I have had interest in local coal mines ever since starting genealogy around 1999 and 2000.  Well that's when it started because I would often read about little mines or see names of relatives that worked here and there at mines not including my Dad or great Uncle (by marriage who was a coal miner).  I have seen listed a mine that has intrigued me but have yet to find much about it other than it was a brief mine in the mid to late 1930's by the name Billings & May.  I have found the Billing's name of Arthur Billings but have no luck with the May.  Since I have linked every May in this county and is buried here but two as all related it was no doubt a relative of some sort but whom I have yet to find.  Anyways that mine was down by Saint David and not the mine I'm going to discuss. A small town north of Canton off route 78 sits a small town of Norris which is situated on the former CB&Q/BN/BNSF  railroad tracks which are now long gone since 2017 ...
Read more

Fulton County, Illinois Ghost towns Part 1

Image
Ghost towns are abandoned villages that since disappeared or are no longer the population they were in their hey day after an economic down fall, disaster or whatever.  For me I consider a ghost town a town that no longer exists but may or may not leave traces behind of it's existence.  Fulton County has a lot of old historical towns like Canton which was founded in 1825 and Lewistown which was founded  years before Canton.  These towns are example of towns that managed to make it despite economic disasters and natural ones. Former towns which have signs marking their location like Civer between Canton and Cuba and Tuscumbia around Bernadotte are examples of towns that didn't make it and ceased to exist and into oblivion of history.  The only thing that is exists is those two signs that mark the location.  It's sad in a way but it is what it is and people who lived in these areas did what they had to for survival of the time period so if they moved to other...
Read more

Fulton County Narrow Gauge Railway

Image
In a previous  post I mentioned this and stated it needed it's own thread which it does because it did have quite a good amount of history for a railway that lasted as it's own for twenty five years before  another railroad purchased and turned it into standard gauge for the remaining twenty five years before abandonment. Today little remains of the actual Narrow gauge itself other than a museum and a few items there.  The rails from the line has long been removed and much of the right of way is grown over or plowed up. If you know where to look the right of way can still be found in places. I know on the Spoon River drive every october the museum is a good source to find information as well as see old pictures of this once promising railroad as well as a book you can purchase about this railroad.  I came to know more about it by  purchasing this book here at one of the drives years ago.  The book is "History  of the Fulton County Narrow Gauge Railway,...
Read more