U.P. Peoria Sub

[Anonymous]

I am looking for mile markers of Peoria Jct,Pioneer,Storage,and where is that?? Where does the Peoria Sub start??

[CShaveRR]

The Peoria Subdivision starts at the former CNW east-west main line in Nelson, Illinois (south of the Rock River, between Dixon and Sterling). It now ends at I&M Junction (former C&IM crossing) south of South Pekin; trains use I&M to get to the old GM&O line and continue to St. Louis.

Mileposts start at Nelson...Storage is 44.9, Pioneer is 72.1, and Peoria Junction is 80.3.

[Anonymous]

Also the Peoria Sub is all track warrent,correct?
Speed limit is 50 mph? At Pottstown all northbound
traffic gets the siding and at Pioneer all southbound's get the main,correct? I have never seen a southbound on the siding or a northbound
on the main. Is there not a "snap" switch at
Pottstown??

[CShaveRR]

Yes, it's TWC, 49 m.p.h. for the most part, at least north of the Peoria area.
There is no siding at Pioneer/Pottstown, technically, that's double track (about six miles).
There are spring switches at both ends of the double track.

[Anonymous]

Carl, I consider the ATSF main between Chicago and Kansas City double track main.
My friends and I will always disagree about the
"siding" between Pottstown and Pioneer. I am sorry
6 miles just does not fit my idea of double track
mail line.

[CShaveRR]

It doesn't really fit my idea of double track, either...but you go by what the timetable says.

(And as for the Santa Fe, it probably says something like "two Main-track CTC", which is different from double track in the operating rules!)

[Anonymous]

Maybe call the six miles a "passing siding"?

[Anonymous]

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