Peoria & Western's La Harpe turn wanders through the farm fields.

Peoria & Western's La Harpe turn rolls past a farm on the east side of Cuba, Illinois.

Peoria & Western's monday turn to La Harpe crosses Illinois Route 9 just two miles from its destination.

Peoria & Western's monday turn to La Harpe wanders past the cemetery in Blandinsville.

After delivering to the Tazewell & Peoria yards in East Peoria, the FP9's needed to be turned before hooking-up with their train for the outbound trip. Here they are in the wye at Wesley Road in ... (more)

Peoria & Western's "new" FP9s make their maiden freight run! Here they are shown on a Tazewell & Peoria yards-bound freight approaching Bridge Jct. The rails in the foreground are ADM industrial... (more)

The Peoria & Western crew picks up order from the Tazewell & Peoria dispatcher at Bridge Jct. This train into TZPR's East Peoria yards, is the maiden run of the "new" P&W FP9's on a freight run.

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!

The short 10 car Canton Local rolls south away from the Tazewell & Peoria. The sun came out just long enough for me to grab this shot. The small jointed rail is always nice to see and hear.

Now here's something you don't see everyday. A meet between the P&W's new FP9's and GP20's which are the current primary power on the P&W.

From a distance the first thing that came to mind was the C&O. The Peoria & Western scheme looks very good on these units I think. These are ex Algoma Central

Newly painted for the Peoria & Western, these two F units enjoy the sun along with another GP20 and the RS-3M #103. These are two of the three units currently in P&W paint and are rumored to be u... (more)

Well, as Don Kalkman said yesterday, the "rolling museum" got better, now we add the ALCO RS3 & a third GP20 with the F-Units.