Having just OS'd out of Nahant Yard, ICE manifest "MSPKC" pounds the jointed rail at Buffalo, Iowa. Welded rail has since been laid in this area.
Remember the "DRI-Line"? It'd been close to ten years since this terminal road was blown up, and assets split between BNSF, and CP rail.
The "East" train crosses a frozen Mississippi River on the Goverment Bridge at Rock Island, Illinois. MLW 801 takes the point of the train at a time when system wide use of these units were common... (more)
Amtrak's Pere Marquette (#370) de-trains passengers before tying down for the night, and return to Chicago in the morning.
CR 6715 East, with the "INPI" hammers the diamonds at Marion on a warm early spring afternoon.
Iowa Interstate train "CBBI" detours eastbound on the BNSF Barstow Sub.
Detouring on the BNSF between the Quad Cities and Peoria due to a derailment at Bureau. IAIS 602 and friends stretch their legs on the high iron.
Rare manifest symbol MKCMC (Kansas City-Mason City,IA) enters south Yard Limits at Nahant with DME 6200, fresh out of the shops at MAC in Kansas City.
ICE's #919 job, with DME 6364 up front, bring inbound steel products from IPSCO's Montpelier Works. This job leaves Nahant daily around 7:30am, and returns from the mill back to Nahant around noon... (more)
DME 3802, with the #914 local, pauses at West Dav for ICE's Bensenville-Nahant "MBENA" train. Once the BENA clears, #914 will head out to switch several industries in Bettendorf, Iowa.
Amtrak train #070 heads for Bucyrus, Crestline, and points east.
DME 3802 sits at the east end of the Nahant Diesel Racks.
IAIS's "BICB" train departing west for Iowa City.
On the day after Christmas 2004, IAIS 704 awaits the next call to duty at Rock Island.
Train "BICB" drills the west end of Iowa City Yard. The SD-38's at the rear of the consist were brought in from Moscow, and will be left in Iowa City for tonight's turn back to Rock Island.
