Roundhouse: (Satellite, a remnant of the foundation.)
P&E = Peoria & Eastern
Sante Fe also had a yard closer to the river.
All three routes that went through this junction were probably abandoned relatively soon after the Staggers Act was passed in 1980. To use more informative names, the routes were:
Aban/ICG/GM&O (north/south) vs Aban/Santa Fe + Aban/Conrail/PC/NYC/Big Four/P&E.
(Update: this junction was east of the terminal yard in Pekin for Big4/Peoria & Eastern, Santa Fe, and Rock Island.)
The junction was in the parking lot of J&J Cleaners & Coin Laundry.
All three routes that went through this junction were probably abandoned relatively soon after the Staggers Act was passed in 1980. To use more informative names, the routes were:
Aban/ICG/GM&O (north/south) vs Aban/Santa Fe + Aban/Conrail/PC/NYC/Big Four/P&E.
(Update: this junction was east of the terminal yard in Pekin for Big4/Peoria & Eastern, Santa Fe, and Rock Island.)
The junction was in the parking lot of J&J Cleaners & Coin Laundry.
Yellow: GM&O
Orange: Santa Fe
Blue: P&E
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From this photo, the tower was in the northeast quadrant.
The Santa Fe ran parallel with the P&E (red line) and then separated again at Parkway Drive. The Santa Fe went on the north side of Coal Miner's park and then along Broadway Street. The P&E continued running straight through Pekin.
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| John Stell posted GM&O's East Yard Tower at Pekin on 4-26-69. Tower guarded GM&O, P&E, and AT&SF crossing. PT also delivered to and received from GM&O at this location. John Stell slide. Mike Martin Phil the foundation for that cantilevered signal bridge is still there alongside Broadway. Somehow it's never been removed... I get a kick out of seeing whenever I go down Broadway. [Street View] John Stell posted GM&O's East Yard Tower at Pekin, Il. AT&SF's Pekin district and the P&E crossed the GM&O at this location. John Stell slide on 4/26/69. Dick Bidwell shared |
Once again, the property lines defined by the railroads leave some strange property shapes today --- the angle of the east side of Walgreens parking lot, a crack in a parking lot (the soil disturbed by the railroads removal caused sinking or heaving?), and another angled property line and alley.
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| John Woodrow posted Peoria and Eastern crossing GM&0 east yard, Pekin Illinois no date (Edward Wayne Bridges photo) Bill Edrington: Has to be in the ‘60s. The second unit has been painted in the simplified black color scheme with white frame stripe; the first car in the consist is an Erie Lackawanna boxcar (1960 merger); and the second car is an NYC “Century green” boxcar with the new “cigar band” emblem (1959-60). John Windish: Bill Edrington , I believe my grandfather worked that GM+O tower in the 40s and early 50s. Looks like the one by Broadway and 14th St. [And the sign on the tower says East Yard.] Randy Grindley: The photo had been taken before September 1967 at which time 5620 was renumbered to 5686. |
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Thanks to the cars parked on some tracks, you can see the GM&O had an interchange on the north side and the Santa Fe had a small yard.
Update:
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| 1939 Aerial Photo from ILHAP |
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| Roger Holmes posted Pekin Tower - I'm looking south, standing on the GM&O with Penn Central's switch engine crossing the diamond. Santa Fe would also cross over here (Pekin branch) and the Rock Island would sometimes come up and make a delivery. I was working for the GM&O at this time, around 1970, and was the only tower I had ever seen or worked that had a bed in it! I was there, third shift and about the only train I would see would be the GM&O coming from the P&PU en route to Bloomington. When I would OS the train the dispatcher would always ask me what my seven o'clock weather was. This would be about 3:30 or so in the morning. Apparently at least one of the other operators would absent themselves after the train left town. Not me! I stuck to my post! But I do have to admit that I did take advantage of the bed and caught a few zzzzzz's! © Roger A. Holmes. Harold J. Krewer They had separate but parallel tracks from here to downtown Pekin into the late 60s, when Santa Fe got trackage rights on the P&E and pulled up their track. David JordanGroup Admin Change happened in Spring 1969. |
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| John Woodrow posted Peoria and Eastern crossing the GM&O at the east yard tower Pekin Illinois 1949 or1950 (Eward Wayne Bridges photo) Michael Buckley: Track to right by tower is Santa Fe from east yard downtown to Santa Fe Depot and yard. |
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| 1960 Marquette Heights and Pekin Quads @ 24,000 |
After seeing the roundhouse on the topo map, I revisited the aerial photo. And as the topo map shows, P&E also had a yard down here.
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| 1939 Aerial Photo from ILHAP |
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| John Woodrow posted turntable at Pekin Illinois (Edward Wayne Bridges photo) David Jordan: This was two days before AT&SF filed to abandon Morton-Pekin and Ancona-Eureka, so the turntable must have lasted until the line was scrapped. Richard Foster: Where was east yard located at in pekin, I've lived in pekin almost 20 years. |
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| Dennis DeBruler replied to Richard's comment A lot of that yard is green land today. The roundhouse was just south of today's Jac's Doghouse with the turntable west of the roundhouse. 1960 Marquette Heights and Pekin Quads @ 24,000 https://goo.gl/maps/tDzS4DjrkUeqcR9H7 |
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| John Woodrow posted picture of turntale in Pekin looking northeast note eagle food now Pekin insurance for the location turntable |
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| Richard Fiedler commented on John's post From the book “Trackside around Peoria”. Caption is included. Santa Fe round hand turntable in Pekin. I believe it was 5 stalls. |
Santa Fe Roundhouse
Mike Nevius posted two images with the comment: "Lived in Pekin most of my life but never new there was a roundhouse. Was looking at old aerial photos and found it and it's remnants can still be seen today. 1939 and present, thought it was pretty cool."
Josh Jordan: The ring is still nice and round in the grass. The pit, and it's concrete ring are probably still there, just buried.
Dana Skyye: A little history from a lifelong Pekinite; I am 68 years old…these were my childhood stomping grounds.
The turntable belonged to Santa Fe; Pekin was the end of the AT&SF Pekin District. The line’s last day of operation was July 7, 1983. Not verified, but I was told the turntable itself was moved elsewhere rather than cut up for scrap? Originally there was a 4 or 5 stall roundhouse, and you can see it in the 1939 aerial photo here; it burned down when I was very young. There was a Santa Fe wedge plow parked on one of the radial tracks for battling the snow drifts the Pekin district was known for.
The Santa Fe tracks in Pekin, the turntable and pit were removed shortly thereafter the line abandonment in 1983.
The Santa Fe Pekin district main track and two sidings were parallel with Broadway road, and they joined the Peoria & Eastern (P&E) at a spring switch at the intersection of Broadway and Sycamore Streets for the trip downtown to a small yard and depot located between 3rd St and 4th St. The depot was located north of the tracks at Capital St.
The P&E, a subsidiary of the New York Central, had a 7-track yard (East Yard) to the south of the Santa Fe property that stretched from just west of Parkway Drive to Sycamore Street and the Santa Fe spring switch; the P&E Right-of-Way is now a bike trail.
Originally, Santa Fe had its own track parallel with the P&E to the downtown yard . It was eliminated when Broadway road was widened to 5 lanes.
Just beyond the Broadway Rd crossing, P&E and Santa Fe crossed the north-south Chicago & Alton’s (later GM&O, then ICG P&N line) diamond at East Yard tower.
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| Daniel Johannsson commented on Mike's post The roundhouse in the aerial photo is on the Santa Fe. Before that one was built there was an earlier roundhouse closer to the depot. That earlier roundhouse was located between Market St, Caroline St, 5th, and 6th, roughly where Flynn’s automotive is today. See the included Sanborn map from 1909 showing that earlier roundhouse. [I need to add this to the other yard notes.] |
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| James Brown commented on Mike's post This is a photo I took of engineering drawings found at the ATSF company archives now housed at the Kansas Historical Society in Topeka. The original roundhouse (5-stall) located near Market St (see other post in this thread with Sanborn map) was listed in poor condition in the 1916 ATSF building records. A note on the 57-ft turntable indicated it was "too small for some locomotives." This original roundhouse may have been inherited from the Chicago & St Louis (one of its several names), the so-called "Hinckley Road" that the ATSF purchased when it was extending its line from Kansas City to Chicago. Not sure of the date of the engineering drawing--I'd have to check some other notes I have buried away. This "new" roundhouse lasted to at least 1965, or so I was told by a former ATSF brakeman hired on in 1964 and worked the Pekin branch in 1965. The roundhouse was gone by 1970. |
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| John Woodrow commented on Mike's post no roundhouse but hear pictue of the turntable looking at broadway and parkway nov 27 1982 (Edward Wayne Bridges photo) |
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| Dana Skyee commented on his comment Santa Fe U23B 6308 on the turntable lead. |
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| Dana Skyee commented on his comment The P&E/Santa Fe spring switch at the intersection of Broadway and Sycamore streets. |
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| Dana Skyee commented on his comment The P&E East Yard. The line of boxcars in the left background are on the Santa Fe property. |
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