One of UP's new tier 4 locomotives and a SD40N take MPRCB west under the old Chicago and NorthWestern coal tower in DeKalb, Illinois.
The 5000th GEVO leads the Proviso to Council Bluffs train through Cortland with the CNW searchlight signals in the distance
CNW 8646 and patched 9087 lead MPRCB over the Fox River. If only 9087 was still CNW 8575, but it is still better then some random UP being behind 8646.
A bad-order car stopped this train at Cortland, just east of DeKalb. The resulting delay meant this train passed through the coal tower in the afternoon.
Standing on the edge of what used to be the bridge girder for MILW's second main track I capture another castaway from UP's Geneva Sub....
Yet again....another UP detour pollutes my favorite railroad....literately....
One of two untouched CNW units leads a detoured MPRCB over the ICE....
CNW 1995 graces the drawbridge at Sabula, crossing from Illinois into Iowa in filtered sunlight.
UP 1995 detouring on the IC&E drops down the hill at Red Barn, beginning a decent into the Mississippi River valley at Savanna. As far as I know there is no actual town of "Red Barn", the name da... (more)
CNW goes where the fallen flags of MILW & CGW once flew, Byron, IL., on a detour move over today's IC&E.
A nice looking standard cab C40-8, UP 9033, leads MPRCB through Rochelle with a much filthier UP C40-8 trailing.
The trio is running on advanced approaches as it crests another hill and slowly creeps through the town of Lowden.
The CNW trio screams westbound around the Wheatland splitting the recently placed Tri-color signals.
MPRCB cruises through the small town of De Witt passing an MoW staging area and local grain elevators.
The "new" CNW trio heads over the Mississippi River into Iowa before swapping crews and continuing west to Council Bluffs.
