In February 2022, after a heavy snowfall, the TPW decided to send two light power units from East Peoria to travel east along their mainline. Their job was to clear the significant snowdrifts that... (more)
A TP&W road freight heading West into Eureka with the small town of Gridley, Illinois in the background as they parallel Route 24.
A total of five EMDs lead the TP&W manifest road train out of Eureka, Illinois with the Rime Ice holding on strong creating a great Wintery scene.
Peoria to Fairbury turn is heading back to Peoria.
Old UP switcher lives out the end of its life at the Grainland Cooperative.
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.
TP&W was a timetable/trainorder railroad through the 1970's. In the small town of Eureka, which a few years later would become known as the college hometown of a young Ronald Reagan, the Conducto... (more)
Toledo, Peoria & Western's local works west at Cruger siding west of Eureka, Illinois with a mixed bag of manifest cars bound for the East Peoria, Illinois yards. The GP20R's were good for putting... (more)
