This junction was also named Target Interlocking.
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| Mel Douglas posted Waiting on a Eastbound freight while headed north to chicago from the Bloomington Depot 1958 or 59 Rob C Dargan Great shot! All engine numbers visible and the crew change action. Richard Fiedler J Parker Lamb photo. [After adding Roger's photo below, I now see the roof of the tower next to the cab of the left loco.] Jeff Lewis shared Arturo Gross This is a J Parker Lamb pic from 1959, lots of his stuff from that timeframe is available to view at the Center for RR Photography's site including this one...http://www.railphoto-art.org/collections/lamb/group-two/... Jeff LewisGroup Admin 1966 is the year. Bill Edrington The GM&O merged with the Alton on 5/31/1947. In a way, the Alton lasted right up to the ICG merger in 1972. The GM&O's Eastern and Western Divisions (the former Alton) were always very distinct from the former M&O and GM&N lines south of St. Louis. In some ways it was like the 1947 merger never happened. Mike Breski posted GM&O and P&E, Bloomington, Illinois, 1959 Gulf Mobile & Ohio's northbound Abraham Lincoln passenger train pauses in Bloomington, Illinois, as an eastbound Peoria & Eastern train departs in August 1959. Photograph by J. Parker Lamb, © 2015, Center for Railroad Photography and Art. Lamb-01-066-0 |
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| Mike Breski posted
My brother David stationed himself on the street overpass at the Bloomington, Illinois, depot to photograph Peoria & Eastern GP-7 units 5617 and 5622 leading their westbound across the GM&O diamonds. The view comes from February, 1958.
Richard Leonard's Rail Archive.
Edward Miller That Diamond is Known as BN Target NowChris Knoxhill Did that line run during the PC era? Thomas Dyrek Chris Knoxhill yes, it lasted into the Conrail era Roger Holmes Chris Knoxhill I have video from 1988 torching the rail into manageable sizes |
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| Dave Durham posted A Maurice Harling photo from 1944; "C&A engine at Washington St. Crossing", Bloomington; courtesy of Illinois Digital Archive. Ken Jamin: Looks like an ashpit beyond the water plug. |
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| Denis Johnston commented on Jeff's share Washington Street. The beautiful station is long gone. No group stepped up to restore it. In case anybody is confused here, from 1980, Bloomington Illinois station on Washington ST. |
The NS and UP tracks still exist. Parts of the NYC route is now the Constitution Trail.
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| 1940 Aerial Photo form ILHAP |
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| Roger Holmes posted Not long after the N&W and Southern merger this Peoria bound freight passes by the BN Target in Bloomington. The Conrail track closest to the photographer was removed in 1988. © Roger A. Holmes. Bill Edrington The former P&E looks rusty here. If I recall correctly Conrail started running over the NS between Bloomington and East Peoria about 1984 or so, and abandoned the P&E line via Mackinaw. Can't recall when Amtrak moved its Bloomington-Normal stop to the "Ambox" near the ISU campus in Normal, but the signs of neglect around the old station are evident. ICG no longer had a division headquarters there by this time, either. David Jordan The ICC officially approved Conrail's trackage rights eff. December 12, 1983 and Bloomington-Pekin was officially abandoned in August 1984. Most track was removed in summer 1986. Ex-P&E track through Bloomington was removed in 1988 (Roger Holmes' classic VHS, CENTRAL ILLINOIS RAILFANNING 1988, documents this change). David Jordan Amtrak opened its Normal depot in 1990. It has since been replaced by Uptown Station. Mark Egebrecht So Conrail stopped running on the P&E in late 1983? I heard somewhere that is was prone to wash-outs? David Jordan Mark Egebrecht The derailment involving PEIN on December 2, 1982 near Danvers was probably the beginning. I know Conrail detoured over the TP&W (via Kentland) for a time (the first detouring INPE was involved in a minor derailment at East Peoria two days later!), but eventually settled on the N&W. Filing for trackage rights is dated October 7, 1983, IIRC. |
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| Roger Holmes posted Bloomington's Peoria & Eastern switcher crossing the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio. The parallel track is the Norfolk & Western, former Nickel Plate. This photo was taken roughly half a century ago with my Argus C3 which carried a lifetime warranty. © Roger A. Holmes. Phil McCall I'll bet that smoking chimney is from the powerhouse for the GM&O shop complex, they had a central steam plant that heated all of the buildings.Roger Holmes You are correct Phil McCall. There was a three chime steam whistle on top of the building which was blown for the shifts. There was also a set of three whistles one of which was the largest steam whistle in the state of Illinois including the Great Lakes freighters.. The shops had their own fire brigade and the whistle complex blew a code as to where the brigade needed to respond. Those three whistles are on display next to NKP 639 in Bloomington. |
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| Roger commented on the above posting This photo of an N&W freight at the same location might show a little different perspective as to where I was when I shot the P&E switcher...I was standing on the bridge seen in the photo and the 3 story building was, on the ground level, the passenger station with dispatcher's office, superintendent's office on the second floor along with other offices and communications on the second and third floors...all GM&O. Photo © Roger A. Holmes. Mark Egebrecht I believe that foot bridge is right where the stone bridge was. |
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Jacob Hortenstine shared Mark Baker's photo.
Bloomington, IL 1988- Target interlocking
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| Edward Wayne Bridges posted TARGET BLOOMINGTON ILLINOIS no date Dennis Smith GM&O South bound train N&W East bound train [The track on this side of the NS//LEW was the P&E.] |
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| Edward Wayne Bridges posted GM&O TARGET BLOOMINGTON ILLINOIS no date Lindsey Fowler BN TargetJacob Hortenstine ex Wabash F7 on the Peoria division wowH Ray Wilson Trained and worked at the Target office in 1967. This is a great photo. |
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| Mike Breski posted
Peoria & Eastern GP-7 units 5615 and 5624 bring an eastbound freight across the diamonds of the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio's line to Jacksonville, approaching the crossing of the GM&O main line at Bloomington, Illinois. My brother, David V. Leonard, snapped this view in October 1957.
Richard Leonard's Rail Archive
Chris Knoxhill Did those last into PC?Larry Grzywinski Chris Knoxhill, They are listed on the CR roster I have so I'd say they made it through the PC era. Chuck Zydek Is that a coal gas storage tank in the background |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Zydek's comment on Mike's post Yes. The roof is barely peaking over the boxcars. You can see some of the wheels that guide the roof as it goes up and down to keep the gas pressure constant. Note that Google Maps still shows a Gas Avenue. https://www.google.com/.../@40.4795334,-89.../data=!3m1!1e3 Aerial photo extract is 1940. |
Westbound steam NKP freight in 1953.
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