Behind the Evangeline Farmer's Co-Op in Ville Platte, Louisiana, sits an Acadiana Railway Geep 30 along with former Santa Fe caboose 999814. AKDN 3018 is ex Rio Grande DRGW 3018.
This Geep 30 was built for the Union Pacific as UP 701 in 1963. Still together after 55 years (but not moving), AKDN 701 resides at S&I Locomotive Services in Opelousas, Louisiana.
The weather the past week has had mornings filled with fog making the Iowa landscape fairly frosty. I lucked into the Iowa River heading north to do interchange work with the CN near Ackley. The p... (more)