Morning light shines on the units in Mapleton.
Painting via Maglite. The P&W f-units are shut down for the winter, stored on the back track in Mapleton for now.
Tough ole' work horse sitting quiet outside the shop.
Things are pretty quiet in Mapleton at night.
The Peoria & Western Railways TZPR transfer is on the return leg to Canton, Illinois on Friday morning October 26,2007. The train will park for three days before making a round trip on Monday as t... (more)
exCNW 8816 leads two other units eastbound on the Peoria & Western (KJRY) light to tie onto the second half of a coal train headed to the Duck Creek station. This train is delivered by the UP, an... (more)
Rounding a slight curve on their way to the Tazwell & Peoria yard in Creve Couer, the Peoria & Western's road train passes an open pasture near Mapleton, IL.
Good looking ole geep.
After the Pioneer Industrial Railway was booted off the City of Peoria owned Kellar Branch, PIRY 102 was moved to Kolbe and the Peoria & Western, a sister company, both owned by Pioneer Railcorp.
The Toledo, Peoria & Western's Mapleton job with GP38 3821 runs past the waiting Peoria & Western FP9s and GP20s. After the TP&W job clears on the wye, the P&W crew will dig the F-units out of th... (more)
An old Alco RS3 sits near the Peoria and Western shops as a pair of geep 20s gets ready to pick up some cars to bring to Peoria.
PREX 1750 & 1752 sit at Mapleton with some kind of a brake issue. They did not make their run to LaHarpe today.
Two geep 20s throttle up as they depart Mapleton for Peoria.
A pair of geep 20s slowly lead a short freight toward Peoria.
Ex Algoma Central FP9 #1752, now in Pioneer Railcorp's Peoria & Western paint, appears ready to blast-off westbound with hoppers in tow!