Sometimes the Journal Star’s Award-winning editorial board can come up with some thought-provoking analysis. And then we have the snarky rants that readers were presented with this morning. We have are two knee-jerk, anti-rail road diatribes.
One ignores half of the facts in the long and convoluted Kellar Branch controversy, including the basic simple fact that [...]

 
As a railfan, it’s exciting to see trains running on tracks that get used on a less-than-daily basis. When I worked at Caterpillar’s Morton facility, I would frequently see a Toledo, Peoria & Western Railway train come into town to service customers. Since I moved to a new position at Peoria in September 2005, I hadn’t seen [...]

Since the boss is under the weather, I just thought I’d do something a little different and post a photo essay featuring local railroad activity. Below is a collection of photos showing trains operated by each of ten railroads serving the Peoria area.

A BNSF Railway coal train is about to cross Farmington Road in West Peoria on [...]