Toledo, Peoria & Western Railway
The TP&W, sometimes called the Tip-Up by those in the business, has roots dating back to antebellum times. Later, as I understand it, the road became a bridge line between the Pennsylvania Railroad (at Effner, Illinois, on the state line with Indiana) and the Santa Fe (at Lomax, Illinois). Its western terminus was across the Mississippi River, at Keokuk, Iowa.
In any case, here are some interesting and intriguing locomotives seen in East Peoria during the latter half of the 1970s—numbers 205 and 202 are both Alco RS2s, number 400 is an Alco RS11, number 900 is an EMD GP35, number 800 is an Alco C424, and lastly number 902 is another EMD GP35—with Alco trucks no less.
Six images by Richard Koenig; taken September 25th 1977.
