A speeding car on Highway 151 passes the much slower Iowa Interstate freight as it heads for Cedar Rapids.
The Blue Island, IL, to Council Bluffs, IA, manifest train is a decent size today with its 91 cars for the west and 3 units. The crew just picked 33 empties at Yocum Connection that came out of Ce... (more)
The Blue Island, IL, to Council Bluffs, IA, manifest train kicks up snow as they blast towards Newton, the next crew change. The sun is getting low on this cold afternoon. The train is running alo... (more)
Spose that GEVO is just too heavy causing that face to grimace?
Iowa Interstate 506 and 502 sandwich 704 and 703 as they take their train west out of Iowa City and through Coralville.
Iowa Interstate 506 and 501 lead an eastbound ethanol train through the outer edges of Rockdale.
A pair of GEVO's pass a tasseled Iowa cornfield.
An extra CBBI train, currently running as the Z039-15, crawls through the Rockdale Yard, with Iowa 506 and 711. 506 is one of the few GEVO's (so far) to receive horn replacements.
The PECR coal train has reached it's destination at CRANDIC's Dows Yard on the Southwest side of Cedar Rapids. Here, the IAIS crew will cut the power off and the CRANDIC will transport the coal to... (more)
GEVO 506 is in DPU as the PECR waits on the siding at Walcott for the crew to arrive and take the coal onto Cedar Rapids.
IAIS #506 leads an eastbound through Davenport on the approach to the Arsenal Bridge.
On the U.S. Amry-built Government Bridge, trains use the upper deck, while autos use the lower. It can be somewhat unnerving crossing the bridge in a vehicle when a train is rumbling overhead.
A CBBI switches Rock Island yard at dusk.
The autumn colors are starting to appear in the background as a pair of GEVO's bring the Council Bluffs train into the Iowa City yard.
Two GE's pull a monster of a BICB west near Walcott, Iowa.