Would you call them inlaws? Conrail provides a common link between Norfolk Southern and CSX in both a figurative and, here, a literal sense. It seems symbolic that Conrail 3731 is between the No... (more)

DM&E Employee Autumn train excursion passes the marsh southwest of the South Siding Switch Green Island on its trip to Sabula Junction.

Passing a small farm on its home line, Both the 6367 and the line are ex MILW.

Back in the MILW days the line Main to Omaha left this line right here to the West.

CP 272 blasts though Green Island with a snoot SD40-2 leading.

Chicago Clearing - Huron Manifest Train slows down to take the siding at SSS Green Island. Two southbounds are holding the main waiting for them to clear: M-HUCC and E-CSCC.

Five days before takeover....ICE 6419 West picks up speed headed north along the Mississippi at Green Island. This was surprising since the crew had only "one and a half" working engines. The CP u... (more)

The bluffs of the Mississippi River Valley are decked out in fall colors, whose days are numbered with the cooler weather. Much as scenes like this are probably numbered with the CP takeover in 5 ... (more)

It was a busy train day around Green Island, IA. This train is the second of three southbounds out of Dubuque. A northbound ethanol empty is waiting on the southbound parade at Green Island. This... (more)

After meeting 2 trains at Green Island Siding, the daily train from Chicago to Huron, SD is crossing the swollen Maquoketa River. The river is high due to the remnants of Hurricane Ike, however t... (more)

Milwaukee Road 100A leads train 107 into Green Island, Iowa on a fantastic fall day, Oct. 21, 1978. STEVE SMEDLEY PHOTO

One of those 'eastbound' trains that became a 'westbound' eroute to St. Paul, this symbol 430 train is timetable 'west', heading north of Samoa to Dubuque in the Soo days of operation. Got that?

The daily MCCHU heads north through Green Island with a pair of DM&E's uniquely painted SD40-2's.

After picking up the previous day's CCHU train in Green Island, the 5 SD40-2s hustle north toward Bellevue.

Regular Manifest Train from Huron - Chicago Clearing crosses a high Makoqueta River north of Green Island.