NKP 765 has successfully arrived into the Quad Cities after traversing the former Rock Island from Bureau.

Westbound hotshot #57 gets out of Silvis on this autumn 1974 day.

IAIS 6988 enters East Moline with the excursion.

The Rock manifest gets out of the yard and onto the main at E. Moline. Much in this view has changed over the years.

We're chasing this MILW detour down the Illinois side of the Mississippi River out of Savanna. Here the train gets onto the Rock Island main at E. Moline and will soon utilize their bridge to cro... (more)

The empty coal train exits the BNSF Quad City Industrial and re-enters IAIS trackage. The BNSF branch to Barstow continues straight while the IC&E Nitron Branch splits off to the right.

In 1980 it was not too uncommon to see early first generation switchers working for Class I railroads. The Milwaukee Road used this and other SW1s around the Quad Cities after the shutdown of the... (more)

IAIS 6988 leads an excursion eastbound with 7081 and 261 trailing

The QJs and 261 triple up eastbound through East Moline en-route to Bureau, IL.

IC&E's 910 job, using the borrowed DME 3800, drags about 35 combine flats past the former SOO Line and CP Rail cabooses that are now used as offices for this local. A BNSF crew is waiting with an... (more)

IC&E's 910 job, using the borrowed DME 3800, gathers up combine flats to be put together and then delivered to the waiting BNSF crew.

An SD40-2 and GP38-2 have arrived in East Moline to assemble a combine train to take east. The conductor is checking for car numbers.

DRI&NW switcher and transfer caboose at the East Moline depot - after the Rock Island shutdown the DRI&NW took over the local switching duties of the Rock.

A pair of SD40-2s have arrived in East Moline to gather the next John Deere combine train to take east.

This WB UP coal train is detouring over the Iowa Interstate from Peoria, IL to Council Bluffs, IA to avoid a big derailment on the ex-CNW at Galt, IL.