Trains going to this plant will be history as of 2022. More on that below.
I picked this scene from the video because it allowed me to determine the direction of the train based on...
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| Screenshot David Jordan posted BNSF Railway C-NAMPEB (Coal Loads, North Antelope Rochelle Mine WY to Peoria IL) rolls across Sanger Street in Peoria, Illinois late morning Friday, November 27, 2020. A TP&W crew will deliver it to Vistra Energy's Edwards Power Station (at Sommer). BNSF 6127 & BNSF 6119 were on the point; BNSF 4992 is DPU. |
...this street view.
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| Street View |
Since Edwards is south of this road crossing, this must have been the route the train took.
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| Satellite plus Paint |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on David's post Which railroad owns the little yard north of Sanger? Where would BNSF Merchandise trains terminate? David Jordan: Those three stub tracks are what is left of P&PU's 90 Yard. BNSF manifests use TZPR's East Peoria Yard. So the BNSF trains cross the bridge and go to here. David Jordan: Yes. |
This plant will close in 2022 and Vistra Energy will "provide $8.6 million to communities around Peoria, Illinois, for workforce, environmental and public health projects." [UtilityDive]
"The plant still lacks up-to-date air pollution controls (Lyderson 2017)." Electricity from this plant is sold as capacity, not power. [ucsusa] That is, it is "on call" so it would be used just a little during the summer months. That would make it easy to replace it with a modern gas-turbines peaking plant.
"Unit 1: 136.0 MW (1960), Unit 2: 280.5 MW (1968), Unit 3: 363.8 MW (1972)" [gem.wiki]
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| power-eng "The Edwards coal-fired plant has been in operation since 1960, according to reports. Unit 1 was retired in December 2015. Unit 2 and 3 were brought online in 1968 and 1972, respectively....Ameren owned the facility, until Dynegy acquired five coal plants including Edwards in 2013. Texas-based Vistra merged with Dynegy last year." [Vistra now plans to close all five of its Illinois plants,] |
"The plant still lacks up-to-date air pollution controls (Lyderson 2017)." Electricity from this plant is sold as capacity, not power. [ucsusa] That is, it is "on call" so it would be used just a little during the summer months. That would make it easy to replace it with a modern gas-turbines peaking plant.
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