A colorful mix of TP&W light power heads back towards the yards in East Peoria.
TP&W's Galesburg Job approaches home yards in East Peoria after delivering its Galesburg to Peoria train to the TZPR yards about a mile west of here.
TP&W's sole GP-18 leads the eastbound to Logansport
TP&W RS11 #401 resting at East Peoria, IL || June 1975
TP&W light power, with the SD45T-2 trailing, heads towards P&PU Jct. in East Peoria. It's getting hard to find an ex-SP "bloody nose" as clean as this one!
TP&W's only GP40 awaits its next assignment.
How would you like to walk out your back door and see this. Looked like there was a previous derailment here.
Apparently Rail America subsidiary Toledo, Peoria & Western Railway buys into the ''paint doesn't make a locomotive run any better'' mantra, as a Westbound local works the Union Pacific interchang... (more)
TPW GP35 #902 awaiting its next assignment at East Peoria, IL in the summer of 1975.
Catching trains on ISRR is like a box of chocolates...
CHFW blasts past the elevator in Hamlet, the elevator switcher is hidden behind the second engine.
A great set of power leads CHFW eastward on the old PRR Chicago-New York line.