If you are going to do the IAIS now days, bring your racing shoes! Keeping up on this 40 mph track isn't the easiest. Here the west train rumbles thru the small town of Downey a few miles east of ... (more)
CN U702 heads south through Conneautville with Bessemer & Lake Erie SD38-2 878 in the lead, passing by the searchlight signals at 115.2.
Iowa Interstate train SIPE roars through the Rumbold & Kuhn elevator at Putnam, IL
BL&E 866 leads a eastbound CN R980 on the CN Lakefront Sub.
Louisville & Nashville SD38-2 #4504 idles behind the Boyles Yard roundhouse. #4504 was built January 1975, later became Seaboard System #4504 and finally CSX #2454
PGR 42 leads an interesting array of EMD power in Wisconsin Northern's yard at Chippewa Falls, WI. No. 42 is a former Reserve Mining SD38-2, GMTX 134 is a GATX leaser, originally SP 2471, and SW15... (more)
EJE 656 works a cut of cars out of the west end of CN's Kirk Yard. What used to be EJE, is now prowled by a swarm of red and black Canadian visitors.
What used to prowl the yard on a daily basis, is now reduced to the pulldown sets. EJE 656 works the west Kirk pulldowns with a cut of assorted freight cars to sort over the back end of the hump.
Iowa Interstate SD38-2 150 is tied down at the west end of Silvis Yard.
Iowa Interstate SD38-2 150's auto-start turns the engine over as the crew gets ready to deliver the empty potash train to the CP in Davenport.
Iowa Interstate's Silvis Switcher is in the clear while Canadian Pacific's B71 crew has tied onto the empty potash train it brought over. The current era of SD38-2's on the IAIS has ended with 150... (more)
CN 5356 + EJE 672 switch out tankers for the Greenergy bulk plant.
One of the many yard switchers moving around on the East end this day, CSXT 2445 shoves a cut of cars back into the yard on a clear blue sky day.
EJ&E 656 leads a westbound local long hood forward.