ICE train "MKCSP" comes in to Buffalo, Iowa; early December 2004.
Milwaukee 261 once again follows the Mississippi on its way to Muscatine.
UP run through stack train waits for MOW to release them before heading east. Train is running over the ICE from KC to Clinton, IA. Once this was Rock trackage, and MILW had trackage rights.
The #919 IPSCO job drags southbound towards the Montpelier works with a couple of ratty ex-Conrail SD-40s.
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.
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)