Iowa Interstate's BICB train crosses over Interstate 280 with the newly delivered IAIS #516 in tow. The unit will be dropped off at the shops in South Amana to be set up for duty.
The 918 local threads northbound through Davenport with the MNACC train in tow.
The conductor on the #431 train gives a friendly wave from the front porch of SOO 6019.
A westbound rail train near Marshalltown, Iowa.
An eastbound autorack move just out of Wabic Jct. passes Carrollton.
You can still find a couple of old semaphores at Moravia, Iowa where the IC&E crosses the Appanoose County RR (ex-WAB).
#513 brings the East train across the Iowa River into Iowa City Yard for a crew change and power swap out.
Remember the "DRI-Line"? It'd been close to ten years since this terminal road was blown up, and assets split between BNSF, and CP rail.
A westbound bucket train passes under the intermediates near Orchard Road, just a few weeks before de-activation of this classic CB&Q style signal bridge.
#513 gets a break between drifts as it's snow packed face leads the East train through Marengo.
The CP track inspection train looks over Iowa Interstate rails at the junction in Davenport. They'll work the main west and tie up at Newton later in the day.
IAIS 400 leads the Council Bluffs-Blue Island manifest through Marengo, Iowa.
235 makes a left turn and heads westbound out of Spencer.
Having just met counterpart BICB at Northstar siding, IAIS #513 leads the East train past Gerdau Ameristeel's mini-mill at Wilton.
BNSF symbol "GEDSCDI" grinds eastbound at Briar Bluff, Illinois with a CN 2400-series motor on the point.
