Illinois Rail Business News

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Dow is closing their Charleston Illinois plant
http://www.foxbusiness.com/industries/2 ... ut-00-job/

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Saw this on a yahoo message board..the rail scene in Bloomington Illiinois just got a little busier on NS. The Mitzsubishi plant just got retooled for their new outlander sport line and is projected to spit out 50,000 units a year to 70000 eventually. Also a Midwest Fiber Plant there completed an expansion and load 30 boxcars of baled wastepaper a month. Also Train D49 has been put back on at Good Yard to handle the extra traffic.

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KCS opened a new grain terminal in Jacksonville Illinois a month or so ago. The new Bartlett Grain Facility was opened on August 1 and is designed to hold 2.2 million bushels of grain. Not sure what this subdivision is called but it's near Roodhouse Ill and its namesake yard Roodhouse

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KCS opened a new grain terminal in Jacksonville Illinois a month or so ago. The new Bartlett Grain Facility was opened on August 1 and is designed to hold 2.2 million bushels of grain. Not sure what this subdivision is called but it's near Roodhouse Ill and its namesake yard Roodhouse

Springfield Subdivision. Service to Springfield itself has been Wednesday only for several years now, and I believe local service on the Murrayville - Jacksonville Spur is twice-weekly (Monday and Friday?) to deliver plastic pellets to Pactiv Corp. Addition of Bartlett's grain terminal is a significant gain for this remnant of the old GM&O Jack Line and the Springfield Sub. KCS even laid welded rail to handle the frequent grain trains.

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KCS opened a new grain terminal in Jacksonville Illinois a month or so ago. The new Bartlett Grain Facility was opened on August 1 and is designed to hold 2.2 million bushels of grain. Not sure what this subdivision is called but it's near Roodhouse Ill and its namesake yard Roodhouse

Springfield Subdivision. Service to Springfield itself has been Wednesday only for several years now, and I believe local service on the Murrayville - Jacksonville Spur is twice-weekly (Monday and Friday?) to deliver plastic pellets to Pactiv Corp. Addition of Bartlett's grain terminal is a significant gain for this remnent of the old GM&O Jack Line and the Springfield Sub. KCS even laid welded rail to handle the frequent grain trains.

Thanks for the info, are you an Illinois resident?.....hold that thought, I just saw your initials on the bottom...I know who you are now...

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A masterbatch colorant plant near Calumet City is expanding...They are already rail served
http://www.plasticsnews.com/article/201 ... n-illinois

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http://www.insideindianabusiness.com/ne ... p?ID=64468
An Entrepreneur has big plans for this former Union Tank Car site in East Chicago...good luck to this grand idea. As fate would have it, maybe some rail to the site is a possibility.

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Carlisle a roofing components manufacturing company is expanding in Greenville Illinois...They appear to be rail served
http://www.plasticsnews.com/article/201 ... g-the-roof

This appears to be the place on the south side of Greenville
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Green ... 16e2a503f6

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A new customer is coming to IMRR at Atterbury...Prairie Land FS is taking over a defunct Lincolnland FS Elevator...A spur will utilize 25 car loadouts into the facility
http://www.prairielandfs.com/grain/Page ... oject.aspx

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A new customer is coming to IMRR at Atterbury...Prairie Land FS is taking over a defunct Lincolnland FS Elevator...A spur will utilize 25 car loadouts into the facility
http://www.prairielandfs.com/grain/Page ... oject.aspx

Photos of trackwork from Saturday, August 23.

http://peoriastation.com/?p=1266

Springfield area media reported this story in February 2013. I noticed track materials stored nearby back in November, but work did not start until June this year.

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A rail served customer in Harvey Illinois, Atkore is buying out another rail served customer in Kirkwood New York...
http://www.plasticsnews.com/article/201 ... e-plastics

Here is the Atkore Plant in Harvey...located near Markham Yard..
http://binged.it/1x2BM6X

This is American Pipe and Plastics in Kirkwood New York
http://binged.it/1x2C25J

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Cronus Chemical has chosen Tuscola, Illinois for a $1.4 billion fertilizer plant that will create some 2,000 construction jobs and 175 jobs at the plant itself.

http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/ ... plant.html

The plant will be built on CSXT's Decatur Subdivision, a former B&O line that runs between Montezuma, Indiana and Decatur, Illinois.

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A new customer is coming to IMRR at Atterbury...Prairie Land FS is taking over a defunct Lincolnland FS Elevator...A spur will utilize 25 car loadouts into the facility
http://www.prairielandfs.com/grain/Page ... oject.aspx

Photos of trackwork from Saturday, August 23.

http://peoriastation.com/?p=1266

Springfield area media reported this story in February 2013. I noticed track materials stored nearby back in November, but work did not start until June this year.

For an update, I posted three sets of before-and-after photos. The latest were taken Saturday evening (Oct. 24).

http://peoriastation.com/?p=1492

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For an update, I posted three sets of before-and-after photos. The latest were taken Saturday evening (Oct. 24).

http://peoriastation.com/?p=1492

I enjoyed your report and pictures, bn. Well done.

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Also from Illinirails yahoo groups an oil terminal by Centerpoint Properties is being built on the south side of Joliet not far from the logistics park..The area is bounded by Laraway Road on the south and Brandon Road to the east and northeast...CN and BNSF will have access.

http://centerpoint.com/news/index.aspx

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Clear Lam a plastics packaging facility in Elk Grove Village Illinois adding a co packaging line and employees
http://www.plasticsnews.com/article/201 ... pabilities

Here is the rail served plant and annex on 1950 Pratt Blvd in Elk Grove.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/1950+ ... 574ce8d3f8