Minneapolis & St. Louis 2-8-0 No. 457 looking sharp after cosmetic restoration.
Talk about a generation gap - IATR 50 sits as a UP train eases over the crossing in the background. Built in 1920, the old electric unit is 70 years older than the UP power behind it yet still ea... (more)
When UP Es still had a nose door and "UNION PACIFIC" on the nose. Crew change at Mason City.
The IATR 50 patiently waits for a crew to show up later in the morning to jump on and start switching the grain elevator.
A UP rack train with surprise CP and Soo power come through Mason City, as one of Iowa Traction's 4 Baldwin built electrics looks on in the background.
Still in regular service. Pentax MX; Ektachrome
Builder's Plate of still-active electric. Pentax MX; Ektachrome
Two trollies were working the loaded soybean covered hoppers from AGP Soybean Plant.
The 1920's technology still serves the Iowa Traction well - last active freight trolley operation in the United States.
View from IATR 51 passing IATR 54. Both trolleys are used to spot covered hoppers at the AGP soybean processing plant.
Baldwin-Westinghouse built May 1921 for Northeast Oklahoma Rly, 2. Sold to Crandic 1940 renumbered 57. Sold to Kansas City Kaw Valley RR, 505, in 1954. IATR acquired car 1963 and renumbered to 51... (more)
Now Florida East Coast 714
