With stars and stripes in the background, MILW 261's crew members finish servicing the newly arrived Chinese QJs on the morning of a tripleheader excursion with the American 4-8-4. September 15th ... (more)

Day two of Riverway 2006 with tripleheaded steam arrives at Rock Island.

IAIS 705 leads the CBBI-07 into the Rock Island Yard. The Clock Tower in the background was completed in 1867 on the Rock Island Arsenal and is now home to the Rock Island District of the Army Co... (more)

Working in the fog IAIS 601 pulls out a string of tanks to be classified, while 153 prepares the east train for departure.

Here's one for the modelers. I don't advise trying to get on the property and taking this picture in this day and time.

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.

Flowers are blooming, as DME 6366 waits just east of Iowa Interstate's Rock Island yard for IAIS to finish switching the yard.

A trio of geeps wait in BNSF's Lower Yard, as fireworks explode above the Mississippi River.

IC&E's "Nitron Local" crosses the Mississippi River into Illinois on BNSF's Crescent Bridge, named that way due to the curve on the Illinois side.

Iowa Interstate #708 leads SD38-2 #156, bringing 106 empty coal cars to a stop in Rock Island Yard for a crew change on Father's Day. The engineer must be ready to head home to spend time with his... (more)

Chinese Steam Special prepares to depart Rock Island for an excursion to Yocum.

Chartered equipment from the "Friend of 261" and Amtrak lays over in Rock Island while the family who chartered the train atteneded a family reunion over the weekend.

Looking sharp as they do some work in Rock Island.

The famed triple header is under way at Rock Island heading east to Bureau Jct.

Crossing the Mississippi River over the Aresnal Bridge into Rock Island, IL finds IAIS eastbound CBBI framed in the sculpture garden on the east side of the bridge. This was the Saturday of the t... (more)