Nitrin job passes thru 44th street with some nice blue & yellow power! It was nice to FINALLY see something than those ugly GP9s on this train for once!

IAIS Car Department truck 0701 and Carman wait as eastbound CBBI will depart for Silvis on this foggy morning.

Eastbound Council Bluffs/Blue Island manifest leaves Rock Island for Silvis,IL. on its way to Chicago.

BNSF's Clinton local comes into the east side of Iowa Interstate's Rock Island yard, led by an 8600-series GE still looking nice in H1 dress.

B73 crosses the Government Bridge headed east through Rock Island to interchange with IAIS. The GP9's, built in 1954, still earn their keep working locals in the Quad Cities but could be near the... (more)

A pair of GP38s head for Rock Island Yard after picking up a string of empty grain hoppers in Moline.

The sun is just coming up on the night crew and the temps are already pushing the upper 70's. The day crew will have to keep her simmering enough for a spin on the wye and be ready for tomorrows R... (more)

CP's Nitrin local is eastbound on the eastend of the IAIS Rock Island Yard on the BNSF Industrial. The local with the oldest locomotives on the CP will continue on to East Moline on the BNSF then ... (more)

Nitrin job heads back to Nahant with 2 busted down GP9's and a NREX SD40-2 for power.

Nickle Plate Road 765 is just minutes away from its destination of Rock Island as it threads the S curve near the Williams and White Machine Shop between Rock Island and Moline, IL. The excursion ... (more)

With the Modern Woodmen building looming over, an ex-Santa Fe #500 class GE leads BNSF's Galesburg-Clinton job, weaving it's way towards the approach to the Crescent Bridge and across the Mississi... (more)

The Galesburg/Clinton train climbs the east end of the natural hump that is the east end of the IAIS Yard lead and the BNSF Industrial at 44th street Rock Island,IL..