A #233 train passing the government slow order at Pleasant Valley.
An IMRL 233 train strolls down the Mississippi at Muscatine.
Crandic job 2 crests the big dip south of Cedar Rapids.
Job 2 rolls south out Cedar Rapids, passing an anhydrous dealer out by the Eastern Iowa Airport.
An eastbound manifest at Union Grove behind a pair of CEFX "insurance" units.
A head-on view of ICE 4201 at NRE's Silvis shops.
918 rolls south by Alcoa's Davenport Works.
FMCKC arrives at Davenport, Iowa. After a crew change at Nahant, the train will continue towards Kansas City.
An MSPKC train comes down the west bank of the Mississippi near LeClaire, Iowa.
A late running West train throttles up for the climb at Davenport.
Roundup time for a quartet of SD-40-2s at Nahant.
An ICE employee special rolls off the Sabula drawbridge.
The ex-RI caboose that serves as Varner's Bed and Breakfast in Montpelier, Iowa appears to have received a fresh coat of paint.
#914 southbound near the Shafton Quarries behind a pair of 4200's.
The Barstow local eastbound on the ICE, headed for Bettendorf.
An eastbound train for Logistics Park jumps on the Barstow Sub at Plum River.
The Council Bluffs manifest crosses the Mississippi River at Clinton.
Re-incarnated by the forces at NRE Silvis, ex D&RGW 3004 is now back at Nahant and ready for delivery to the Cimarron Valley.
A 222 manifest gets ready to switch out Spencer.
235 makes a left turn and heads westbound out of Spencer.
A 223 train with SP power departs Nahant Yard.
An eastbound SP train crosses Media trestle.
Westbound stacks for L.A. on the BN at Buda, Illinois.
A westbound SP trackage rights train climbs Edelstein hill.
The Nitrin Patrol westbound at Yard Limit Nahant.
An SD-60M leads a 221 train into Iowa, headed for Sabula Junction.
With no meet scheduled, a westbound holds the main through Cotter.
The conductor on the #431 train gives a friendly wave from the front porch of SOO 6019.
A westbound manifest just outside Adeline.
A southbound manifest swings off the south leg of the wye at Sabula Junction, headed for Nahant Yard at Davenport.
MSPKC approaches the duck under at the Government Bridge at Davenport.
ICE 6212 South passes the signal guarding the new radio remote switch at the south end of Bettendorf siding.
The St. Paul-Kansas City train hustles south at Pleasant Valley, Iowa.
ICE 6212 South along the Mississippi River at milepost 174.
An MSPKC manifest heads southbound near Princeton, Iowa.
The westbound manifest for Council Bluffs steps off the Mississippi River bridge at Clinton.
One of CNW's 8500s leads a Proviso-Clinton train west through Rochelle.
CNW SD-40-2s hanging out in the yard at Clinton.
A westbound rail train near Marshalltown, Iowa.
Triple headed steam on an eastbound Riverway excursion.
The QJs race north on the ICE with the Riverway 2006 special near Fairport.
The Riverway 2006 excursion heads north back to the Quad Cities, passing the ICE's Muscatine switcher.
Warbonnets round Houlihan's curve with the 199 train.
Day two of Riverway 2006 with tripleheaded steam arrives at Rock Island.
The first run out of Corallville arrives with Hawk fans ready for homecoming and the Indiana game at Kinnick Stadium.
Mill Creek Park gets a visit from the passing MHUCC train, with DME 6094 in charge.
An ICE Chicago manifest with DME power in the lead at Bellevue.
ICE's MHUCC train crawls down the street trackage at Bellevue.
Eastbound coal swings around the curve at Middletown, Iowa on the BNSF Ottumwa Sub.
An eastbound manifest, likely a Lincoln-Galesburg train, rolls on just outside of Lockridge.
An eastbound coal bucket on the Ottumwa Subdivision passes the elevator at Danville.
A CSX geep poses next to a defunct Rock Island tri-light signal near the depot at Seneca.
The Omaha Limited passes the ex-Rock Island depot at La Salle, Illinois.
An all Amtrak view as the head of an AAPRO special passes over on the Air Line.
The Omaha Limited crosses the Mississippi River into Davenport, Iowa
An AAPRO Special heads for access to Metra's Rock Island District on the St. Charles Air Line.
You can still find a couple of old semaphores at Moravia, Iowa where the IC&E crosses the Appanoose County RR (ex-WAB).
The west train passes through Walcott, Iowa on a cold February day.
The Hawkeye Express excursion train leaves Cedar Rapids on the Crandic interurban line, headed for Iowa City. Rock Island heritage unit 678 leads the way.
Eastbound intermodal action just east of Bucklin.
Number 5 slinks through the crossovers at Buda.
A Union Pacific westbound stack train on BNSF at West Ethyl.
An IAIS westbound business extra pauses at Wilton for a boxed lunch.
An eastbound coal train crawls through the Northstar siding as Gerdau Ameristeel's Wilton, Iowa "Mini Mill' hums in the background.
The 918 local threads northbound through Davenport with the MNACC train in tow.
Grabbing a what's left of the day's sunlight, a westbound manifest is recorded on the BNSF Mendota Sub just east of Kewanee.
Train #7 slinks downgrade through the countryside just east of Columbus.
An eastbound manifest swings off the curve near Rio.
The Rock Island switcher drills the yard as a Gen-set loco just out of NRE at Silvis waits to go out on the afternoon train to Chicago for deliver to UP.
A westbound empty taconite train approaches Warner.
Warbonnets lead the westbound QNYLA train at Yost.
A UP northbound "Global One" train off the BNSF connection at Edelstein ducks under BNSF's Mendota Sub at Buda, Illinois.
It's all NS at Toluca, Illinois on the former ATSF transcon. Here we view a BNSF westbound stack train passing NS' Kansas City train just out of the connection at Streator.
Another view of the July 7th derailment on the BNSF transcon.
An aftermath view of the July 7th derailment of a Union Pacific westbound stack train on BNSF's Chillicothe Sub.
BICB finishes watering up just west of Hancock.
Freshly watered, the QJs continue westbound towards Council Bluffs with the BICB train.
QJs 7081 and 6988 lead the BICB train east of Casey.
Iowa Interstate's "West " train hammers through Casey at track speed.
BICB passes over US 59 at Hancock with the QJs in charge.
IAIS 400 leads the Council Bluffs-Blue Island manifest through Marengo, Iowa.
A manifest ducks under the ex-RI Metra line, approaching Broadway Street at Blue Island Junction.
A westbound with empty buckets curve to the west at Chariton.
Amtrak's Number 6 crosses Monroe County Road T-55, just east of Avery, Iowa.
An autorack train with UP power approaches the crossing shanty at Broadway Street.
A BNSF westbound stack train passes CP West Ethyl on the Marceline Sub.
A westbound manifest with a pair of SD-60s pass Columbus.
Council Bluffs-Blue Island slides down the hill at Davenport, Iowa.
Iowa Interstate's BICB train swings around the curve at Moscow, Iowa.
A late BICB passes the Durant cemetery, headed for a crew-train swap at Moscow with the CBBI train out of Iowa City.
