Sitting unassigned at Nahant after needing to be rescued the day before stalling with a train in Princeton, IA.

The West Train departs the Quad Cities through downtown Davenport along 5th Street.

An veteran ex-SOO GP9 works the yard while a "new" IC&E SD40-2 awaits a crew on the main. The city name has yet to be applied to the 6416.

DRIN switcher Quad Cities

Train CBBI eases into Davenport as it does a bit of street running as it enters town.

Switching at the West Davenport Yard.

A heavy powered west train passes the ghosts of the Rock Island Lines, as the crew prepares the assault up the hill at Davenport.

The Golden State Ltd. is on borrowed time but looking sharp as it turns into downtown Davenport off the Golden State main, approaching Rockingham Rd. John was in Davenport for a 3-week training a... (more)

The crew of the West Dav switch peer into the future through John's camera as they cross Rockingham Road on Davenport's industrial west side. The tracks behind are known to railroaders as the "Go... (more)

An IAIS business train being pulled by the Rock Island heritage came around a corner and struck this Canadian Pacific hi-rail truck trying to get off the tracks at the Fairmount Street crossing. ... (more)

Iowa Interstate 507 pulls the hill leaving Davenport with a loaded coal train...

DME and ICE power takes a rest at the former ICE roundhouse in Davenport Iowa on a very cold winter evening.

The CBBI runs down the center of 5th street on a summer morning.

After leaving Nahant yard this CP "feeder" train from the KCS looks very much like the IC&E trains that used to ply this line as it ducks under the Government Bridge. The solid train of grain car... (more)