Peoria & Pekin Union: (Satellite)
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| Noah Haggerty posted Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific GP7R #4511 has just arrived at Collier Yard in Bartonville, Illinois in August 1979. The Rock Island operated these parts over the Peoria Terminal Company, an old 10-mile electric railway between Peoria and Pekin, but by these days had basically become a railroad on paper. John & Roger Kujawa Photo, Thomas Dyrek Collection. Roger Kujawa: The Rock “3:55PM Belt Job” left the Rock Island Yard in Peoria and traveled the Belt trackage along the river behind Hiram Walker and arrived in Collier Yard. It met the 3:55 PM “CPC outside job which departed the Pekin Corn Products Company plant. The trains exchanged cars and sometimes locos at Collier Yard. These two trains regularly worked 12 hours with all the switching they had to do in addition to the travel time. Originally the trains rain all the way to Pekin on Peoria Terminal track until the Pekin bridge was damaged. They then got trackage rights on the P&PU. |
The Rock Island Collier Yard was just south of the crossing with the C&NW, and the P&PU yard was just south of Iowa Junction.
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| 1960/61 Pekin Quad @ 24,000 |
Both yards are still used.
Given all of the steel industry in the area, including Liberty Steel, I was expecting Collier Yard to be full of gondolas. Instead, it is full of tank cars.
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