A colorful mix of TP&W light power heads back towards the yards in East Peoria.

A rare NS Cedar Rapids-bound coal train heads up the TZPR Nickel Plate main. This train will be interchanged with the Iowa Interstate at Peoria. Thanks to Steve Smedley and Doug Meyer for the he... (more)

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 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!

NS D46D, lead by PR43C #4001, approaches the north-end of the TZPR yards.

NS trains in and out of Peoria have featured lots of lease power as of late. Here an ex-BN SD40-2 leads D46D across a creek.

TP&W's only GP40 awaits its next assignment.

NS D46D traverses the TP&W West Main heading towards the TZPR yards behind a PR43C.

On Halloween Sunday, Oct 31, Norfolk Southern PR43C 4001, A Progress Rail unit, leads the D46D into the Tazewell & Peoria Railroad yards in East Peoria, Illinois. STEVE SMEDLEY PHOTO

On Halloween Sunday, Oct 31, Norfolk Southern PR43C 4001, A Progress Rail unit, leads the D46D into the Tazewell & Peoria Railroad yards in East Peoria, Illinois. STEVE SMEDLEY PHOTO

TPW GP35 #902 awaiting its next assignment at East Peoria, IL in the summer of 1975.

With only a couple of months to go before the Santa Fe takeover, the engine pit at East Peoria still yielded quite a variety of units. From left to right: GP40 #1000, GP30 #700, C424 #800, a GP3... (more)

A Tazewell & Peoria transfer job to the TP&W yards approaches the west end of the yards in East Peoria.