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| Kevin Mengoni posted Dennis DeBruler This photo was taken because the Illinois River was flooding. The more I looked, the more water I found in the wrong places. [Westclox] |
Mark Baker shared four photos with the comment:
Not the Quad Cities and the Mississippi, but LaSalle/Peru. Illinois and the Illinois River. Approx 1pm Friday April 3, 2019. The IAIS is high n' dry here, but the Illinois Raiilway East-end of the Zearing branch is under. Including alot of the James Hardie product sitting at the transload location; itself being idle for several weeks this March & April while LaSalle or Ameren needed to do underground work adjacent to the IR track.Dennis DeBruler Thanks for providing details for each photo. For us out-of-towners, it can be hard to place a photo.
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| 1 LaSalle, IL 5/3/19 1300 hrs. Many fans will recognize this old coach along the IAIS ROW. In the foreground is a city street with high water from the Illinois River thanks to days of rain hereabouts. This "entrance" to Peru is where Brunner Street turns into Water Street. |
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| 2 LaSalle, IL 5/3/19 1300 hrs. The Creve Coeur St crossing of the Illinois Railways' ex-CB&Q trackage. High water from the Illinois River thanks to days of rain hereabouts. |
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| 3 LaSalle, IL 5/3/19 1300 hrs. The IAIS In the foreground is high n' dry at this location, but behind is stacks of finished James Hardie siding material near the location of the old BN depot. Illinois Railway tracks here and farther West towards Maze Lumber are under water. IIRC this occurs at least once a year... |
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| 4 LaSalle, IL 5/3/19 1300 hrs. High water from the Illinois River End of Track for the Zearing Branch. This MOW piece has been here for a few years, but in the 2000s, CF7's #3 and 5 would park here and recently, center beam cars have been loaded with James Hardie product trucked down from the Peru facility. Ameren (electric utility) has an ambitious project going in the background with several trucks & employees milling about today... |
Mark Baker shared four photos with the comment: "The Illinois River finally receded several weeks ago allowing Job 105 to access LaSalle customers..."
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| 1 An observation while waiting for another shot of the subject; IR train 105, is the evidence of "new" traffic on all 3 of the tracks leading into the ex-CB&Q yard at LaSalle, Il 6/14/19 |
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| 2 IR train 105 spotting ADM in Peru, Illinois 6/14/19. If I Recall Correctly, these and a string of hoppers within the last month or so are the first rail cars used by the facility in quite some time. HBRY #5006 "City Of Churchill" is in charge. |
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| 3 IR train 105 spotting ADM in Peru, Illinois 6/14/19. If I Recall Correctly, these and a string of hoppers within the last month or so are the first rail cars used by the facility in quite some time. HBRY #5006 "City Of Churchill" is in charge. |
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| 4 IR train 105 is returning up the branch toward Ladd and Peru and passing through the Mertel Gravel Company/South Shore Boat Club location in Peru, Illinois 6/14/19. Iowa Interstates' ex-Rock Island main is in the foreground. |
The line used to continue south east across the river and over to Streator. Illinois Railways now parks a locomotive at the end of the line.
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In LaSalle, IL across from the IAIS and ex-CRI&P depot, the Illinois Railway and James Hardie have established a trans-load location for finished Hardie products. Trucked to this location from the plant on Peru's North side and loaded onto 3 at-a-time center beam cars brought down by an HBR SD50, these series of photos are from over several weeks and the last 2 are screen grabs from a 2007 video of a WB AAPRCO special. At the time the Railnet parked it's CF7's for the Zearing branch at this location. Gone are the 3 or 4 Uranich cement silos and cleared away of brush are concrete pads that now include alot of product on pallets, endloaders, port-a-potty and lights and generator for any after dark work. All this is literally within feet of the East end of track of the once Denrock-Streator BN line. The Burlington Northern depot once stood on the location of this operation.
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| 1 llinois Railway's HBR SD50 #5006 (from what I've seen lately, Nov 2018, the only loco on the LaSalle-Zearing line save "road" power sets for unit trains) drops center beam cars at a James Hardie trans-load location at the far East end of the Zearing branch in LaSalle. Over the summer and fall of 2018, this location has been cleared and over two large concrete pads are pallets of finished Hardie products trucked down from the plant on Peru's north side. The plant itself is served by IR, but evidently good business required this operation. |
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| 2 3 at a time empty center beam cars are left at the far East end of the Zearing branch at an off-site James Hardie loading facility. Nov 2018 |
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| 3 HBR 5006 pulls away with a couple tank cars in LaSalle, IL very near the site of the ex-BN depot. on until recently, seldom used track. |
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| 4 Mike Mullins It was Quality Liquid Feeds. They got carloads of molasses. |
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| 5 Looking East at where the ex-BN depot once stood (IIRC) the area is now busy as a transload spot for finished James Hardie products. An end loader is already busy after Job 105 made the trip to the far East end of Zearing branch trackage with empties. Pics of which are among other photos in this album. |
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| 6 A look West at IR trackage in LaSalle, Illinois. The large pole building on the right houses a gym. Tracks continue through a now empty several track yard, and about 2 miles distant cross the Iowa Interstate and continue up to Peru and Ladd, Illinois |
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| 7 Another view of the WB Illinois Railway Job 105 in LaSalle, IL (Nov 2018) |
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| 8 Looking South with Quality Liquid Fertilizer in the distance, the trackage is at the far East end of what remains of BN's Denrock-Streator-Montgomer |
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| 9 On another day, between loading rail cars, I'm at the End Of Track of the Zearing branch. A tamper (?) sits as close to Streator as these tracks now go in LaSalle, Illinois. Nov 2018 |
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| 10 From 2007 video of an AAPRCO/Amtrak special heading West on the IAIS, our vantage point is the now-removed bridge near Rt351. The nearest loco, a Illinois Railnet CF7 is parked at the end of track and between it and the other Cleburne rebuild is the current James Hardie loading facility. Gone now are the concrete silos on the far Left. |
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| 11 From 2007 video of an AAPRCO/Amtrak special heading West on the IAIS, our vantage point is the now-removed bridge near Rt351. The nearest loco, a Illinois Railnet CF7 is parked at the end of track and between it and the other Cleburne rebuild is the current James Hardie loading facility. Gone now are the concrete silos on the far Left. |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Mark's posting Is James Hardie trucking to LaSalle so that can load longer cuts of cars? Did they quit using their industrial spur? I assume it is cheaper to truck to what was "underutilized" land than build a new transloading facility closer to their plant off the Peru Industrial Track that IR operates. https://www.google.com/.../@41.3725497,-89.../data=!3m1!1e3 |
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