After waiting around a hour for the steel gang to clear up at Walford, the Hawkeye Express rolls on south for Iowa City. This is old Milwaukee Road track that is being upgrade with new 115 pound s... (more)
GEVO 500 and 2 GP38's head down grade towards Amana on the CRIC.
Operating in DPU, GEVO 510 takes up the rear of the CRIC and eases past the bright orange ex-Milwaukee depot in Amana on the CRANDIC line. A few miles ahead is Yocum Connection and it's on to Iowa... (more)
A short stop to close the west switch at Yocum connections finds QJ 7081 at the Amana Welcome billboard.
IAIS bringing 77 loads of coal to ADM in Cedar Rapids.
CIC Job 1 has been summoned to dump ballast on the ex-MILW Amana Line. They're passing the old depot heading west to clear up in the siding for the IAIS coal empties coming out of Cedar Rapids be... (more)
CIC's Job 2 transfer run from Cedar Rapids to the IAIS at Iowa City pauses in Amana so the crew can eat dinner on the last run. The IAIS now handles this transfer job with their own power and cre... (more)
IAIS 627, IAIS 151, IAIS 706, IAIS 718, IAIS 704.
Iowa Interstate's Cedar Rapids turn is heading back to Iowa City via Crandic's ex-MILW Amana line.
Final Run of Crandic Job 2, the road job from Cedar Rapids to Iowa City. As the crew is out for beans, the sun sets on Job 2 one last time.
CIC 114 leads Job 2 south towards the Amana Colonies on its nightly journey to Iowa City from Cedar Rapids.
