Headed south towards Kansas City, the Wimmer Special kicks up the dust on the Spine line.
The Wimmer Special is led by the Centennial between Ames and Jordan, IA this morning.
UP 408 switches the massive Quaker Oats plant in downtown Cedar Rapids on one of its last days working for UP. The ex-CNW GP38-2's are being returned to lessor. UP 409, its sister, has already l... (more)
Milwaukee Road 261 quietly steams in Rock Island awaiting the next days journey to Bureau, IL and back.
UPY 741 backs across the Squaw Creek bridge while switching Skei Coal in downtown Ames.
Brand new UP SD70ACe's 8342 and 8337 are the sole power leading a westbound stack train through Ames. Yellow Scotchlite was present on both units.
Two matched Phase II SD90AC's lead MSSNP towards Boone.
Brand new UP 5208 leads a detouring stack train south towards Des Moines on the Spine Line. The train just came off the connection with the E/W Main after picking up a pilot engineer in Nevada. ... (more)
UP EC-4 works eastbound through Ames this morning.
The cab of 261 glows with the 24 hour caretaking the locomotive receives. Two crew members keep the boiler running overnight.
Running through Clinton, the famous Planters Peanut elevator rises in the background. The old CNW station is just to the right the locomotive.
UP 6002 pauses at Scholl Road in Ames to change crews. Usually trains head into Boone for change-outs, but there was a backup of westbounds today.
The Grand Excursion special backs across the Mississippi River towards Savanna to service the engine for the return trip to the Quad Cities.
MILW 261 rolls around one of the many curves on the IC&E along the Mississippi River.
CNW 'Safety and Reliability' patch UP 9089 leads MDMDM, which has been stashed in the Nevada siding on account of congestion in Des Moines.
