An ICE Southbound local booms towards LeClaire, Iowa en-route to a pick up at the siding in Pleasant Valley.

ICE 4206 South passes Pleasant Valley, Iowa with a #914-918 local.

Lonely and powered down. ICE SD-40 #201 spends New Year's Eve at the north end of the Nahant ready tracks.

Thanksgiving Eve 2006 finds the "City of Janesville" sitting outside the roundhouse at Nahant.

It's Thanksgiving Day, but the furnaces at IPSCO Steel's Montpelier Works never shut down. Here a pair of ICE's 200 class SD-40 bombers pull the #919 steel train southbound out of Nahant Yard for ... (more)

ICE 6418 sits in a snowy Nahant Yard awaiting assignment at Davenport, Iowa.

ICE power lines up near the Nahant fuel tank at Davenport, Iowa.

Due to a small construction project, space is tight around the Nahant Yard diesel racks. Even so, DME 6055 squeezes in some elbow room.

Diesels huddle around ICE's Nahant Roundhouse on Christmas Eve at Davenport, Iowa.

A westbound manifest crosses over to track one at Edlestein, Illinois.

A Warbonnet GE leads an eastbound intermodal train at Williamsfield, Illinois.

An eastbound flies through the snow on the ex-Santa Fe near Williamsfield, Illinois.

A pair of ICE's 6400 class SD-40-2s keeping warm outside a cold Nahant Roundhouse.

A late RIIC turn passes Atalissa with IAIS's four SD-38-2s.

IAIS' "RIIC" train passes Wilton, Iowa with six axle power.