The Nitron local heads east on joint track past the old Rock Island depot. The DME SD40-2 is heading to NRE in Silvis for work.
It's 15 degrees this afternoon when MKCSP glides past the former Milwaukee Red Wing depot.
ICE's 918 Local brings the "MNABR" manifest south, past Alcoa's Davenport Works en-route to Nahant Yard.
This semaphore distant signal protects ICE's crossing of the UP's Ft Dodge sub at Garner. Both eastbound and westbound distant signals were retired on 12/05/06. Now a plain yellow light distant si... (more)
As the day comes to an end, LSN heads back to Spencer with a 9 car hide-wide special.
Iowa, Chicago and Eastern Train MSPKC (Manifest St. Paul to Kansas City) is led by a unit from it's Sister Road today as it rushes through down town Lansing, about to enter a second section of str... (more)
DME 6081 is just by the crossing nickname Floyd Crossing as they start downhill into Charles City with loaded ethanol train.
Old Rock Island signals show their age as a DME train stops to change crews at Nora before heading to Marquette.
Nearing the end of its journey towards Crawford, NE, this DM&E southbound crosses over one of the many bridges on the Black Hills Sub.
The morning sun announces its presence by adding a little bit of color to some passing clouds.
As the sun calls it a day, DM&E 6200 slowly coasts through the twisting turning curves of Bettendorf ending a beautiful fall day of railfanning.
DM&E 6200 and IC&E 6432 rip the throttle and S5T air horn wide open as they close in on Bettendorf and Nahant.
Just days before ICE renamed their train symbols, local L918 screams through Princeton with DM&E 6200, a fairly recent addition to the family.
