A pair of ex-SOO veteran GP9's get started with their switching duties.
A later than usual "RI Turn" heads back to Iowa City over the Government Bridge over the Mississippi River.
A later than usual "RI Turn" heads back west to Iowa City with the only ex-Rock Island engine on the roster. IAIS 400 is ex-CRIP 1275.
Nahant 911! A Davenport Fire Department truck makes a cameo roster "mug" with a couple of ICE SD-40-2s on the ready tracks.
An eastbound manifest led by GP-30 #1000 crawls through downtown Davenport, Iowa, passing the Oscar Meyer plant.
ICE's #918 train pulls a cut of cars from the IAIS interchange at Missouri Division Junction.
BNSF's Barstow to Bettendorf job crosses the Big Muddy into Iowa with a pair of new GP38-2s rebuilt at NRE sporting the new swoosh logo.
Iowa Interstate's new business car, Hawkeye, is being pulled east to Bureau to pick up some customers and show them the line to Peoria. IAIS Hawkeye is former KCS Laredo.
The empty coal from Cedar Rapids can be seen in my side mirror along the street running through Davenport.
Milwaukee 261 sits just west of the Quad City Sports Center on the IC&E main line, prepariing to go to Savana, IL for a day trip.
DM&E 6050 sits outside of the engine terminal, accompanied by I&M Rail Link GP9 112.
DM&E 6362 sits in the engine terminal, accompanied by IC&E 4203.
A small fleet of GP9s soldier on for the IC&E and this pair is no exception as they begin their day drilling Nahant Yard.
Newly rebuilt from a GP40, the 2003 leads the "BN Barstow" across the Mississippi River into Iowa.
A quartet of SD40-2s from the IC&E and DM&E enter West Dav yard and end their journey south.
