An excursion on the Octoraro Railway works at Oxford, Pennsylvania. After arriving in town, the lead ex-TP&W RS2 was set off on a siding, and the other one is pulling the train past it, so the uni... (more)

A TP&W grain train bound for the Peoria ADM ethanol plant makes its way across the TZPR former Nickel Plate trackage. Train consist includes two of the Indiana Southern GP40's.

I am just about to run out of daylight as a TP&W transfer job to Collier Yard passes through an industrial area in Peoria, Illinois.

A light power move is westbound on the old PRR and passing some still standing history of that lines heyday.

Light power heads westbound past a remaining relic of the PRR era.

The westbound TP&W Galesburg job meets BNSF light power, in the form of LLPX SD38-2 lease units. I believe that the LLPX SD38-2's went on to Iowa Interstate in their 150 series.

The sun rose just in time for me to capture TP&W's train 120 as it approaches the yards in East Peoria. This train, generally a mix of intermodal and manifest, was run from Ft. Madison, Iowa to E... (more)

Three former Iowa, Chicago and Eastern SD40-2's lead a westbound grain train on the TP&W.

On the last day of 1983 and last day of the original Toledo, Peoria & Western’s existence, TP&W’s only GP30 No. 700 sits at the railroad’s locomotive facility at East Peoria, Illinois. On Ja... (more)

What is normally a nocturnal operation, TPW 5015 heads east in the morning with road train. Usually the twice weekly EB road trains leave East Peoria overnight.

Powered by colorful EMD GP18 No. 600, Toledo, Peoria & Western’s Morton Switcher arrives at Morton, Illinois, on a snowy December 16, 1983. Merry Christmas to all!

As the blue hour approaches on a rainy, cold and dreary December day in 1983, an eastbound Toledo, Peoria and Western freight switches the grain elevator at Wolcott, Indiana. TP&W only has a few m... (more)

On December 16, 1983, two Toledo, Peoria & Western trains pose at the Farmdale trestle near East Peoria, Illinois. Above is train No. 24, the the Effner Local, with GP38-2s Nos. 2002 and 2008, pas... (more)

Toledo, Peoria & Western EMD GP38-2 No. 2009 sits in the bright sun and the Railroad’s East Peoria Yard locomotive facility on December 16, 1983.

TPW 5009 runs long hood forward toward to do switching in the old, once mighty PRR yard.