Monday, May 23, 2022

1939 KJRY/TP&W/PTC(RI) and 1915 TZPR/P&PU Bridges over Kickapoo Creek in Bartonville, IL

RI: (Bridge Hunter; no Historic Bridges; John MarvigSatellite, western bridge)
P&PU: (Bridge Hunter; no Historic Bridges; John Marvig; RailPictures.NetSatellite, eastern bridge)

KJRY = Keokuk Junction Railway
TP&W = Toledo, Peoria & Western Railway
PTC = Peoria Terminal Company, a subsidiary of Rock Island
TZPR = Tazewell & Peoria Railroad
P&PU = Peoria & Pekin Union Railway

P&PU is in the foreground.
Street View

Noah Haggerty posted
A set of Toledo, Peoria & Western locomotives head east towards Peoria, Illinois in either 1977 or 1978 seen from the on ramp towards Bloomington near Bartonville. It is led by GP30 #700 in its bicentennial paint. Trailing are two Precision National GP10's and both of the TP&W's C424's. John & Roger Kujawa Photo, Thomas Dyrek Collection.
[TP&W is on the right, and P&PU is on the left.]
David Jordan: Power and caboose is actually moving timetable east toward Peoria. Vantage point is Interstate 474, which opened between US 24 (SW Adams Street) and Rt. 29 in Creve Coeur on August 30, 1978. Extensions east to I-74 and west to I-74 and US 150 opened on December 20, 1979. The bridge in the background carried Chicago & North Western's St. Louis Subdivision.

Dennis DeBruler commented on Noah's post
I'm glad you grabbed a shot before the trees hid the UP/C&NW bridge. https://maps.app.goo.gl/wudXjWnnZcUK7BgcA

Rock Island  (It looks like the Illinois River was running high in 2015.)
June 2015 Photo by John Marvig via BridgeHunter-RI

Rock Island  (In 2017 the river was more normal)
Apr 2017 Photo by John Marvig via BridgeHunter-RI

Noah Haggerty posted
TP&W caboose 523 trails on the rear of an ATSF mixed freight in Bartonville, just across the Kickapoo Creek bridge. I believe this is January of 1984, soon after the TP&W was absorbed into the Santa Fe. John & Roger Kujawa Photo, Thomas Dyrek Collection.

I labeled the western bridge Rock Island because of topo maps. For example:
1949 Peoria West Quad @ 1:24,000

P&PU
June 2015 Photo by John Marvig via BridgeHunter-PP&U

PP&U  This truss is pin connected.  John says this view is looking East, but I think it is looking North. The photo above is looking East from between the two bridges.
Apr 2017 Photo by John Marvig via BridgeHunter-PP&U


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