RP.net's own Tom Farence gets the shot of CN 1501 inspecting the IAIS mainline through the Quad Cities on its way from Council Bluffs, IA to Peoria, IL.

Sitting derelict in NRE's vast collection of locomotives, what's left of former BNSF (BN) 7829 sits on a pair of shop trucks. There is not much left, just a frame, cab and a few pieces of the lon... (more)

Frisco 1522 heads back to St Louis after spending the weekend in Galesburg for Railroad Days. Scanned from a 35mm print negative.

Sitting on a BNSF flatcar on the east side of the former Rock Island shop, the Eldon (IA) Depot Museum's re-incarnated Rock Island GP7 1275 is receiving some last minute work to lower the exhaust ... (more)

The CNW Heritage ACe heads east through Flagg and the west end of Global III.

CP SD60-3 6305 was rebuilt by NRE from SOO 6053 and is waiting for the CP to pick up and return to service.

Various first and second generation EMD's await an uncertain fate at Keokuk Junction's shop facility. A new investment group in charge of the railroad has sidelined the famous matching set of A-B-... (more)

Two 150-ton overhead cranes work together at the former Rock Island shop to load a former Santa Fe GP7 wearing Rock Island paint onto a BNSF flatcar. The re-incarnated Rock Island 1275 is going t... (more)

A trio of veteran Canadian Pacific SD40-2's bring a 60 car Herzog ballast train through downtown Davenport. This view shows how the CP has elevated the mainline at least 2 feet over the Gaines Str... (more)

Iowa Interstate's Rock Island heritage "comes home" to the ex-Rock Island shop at Silvis, IL. What was once the running-repair building is now home to NRE's wheel truing lathe. The Iow... (more)

While visiting NRE in Silvis to inspect Eldon, IA's GP7 purchase, we were allowed to tour the entire ex-Rock Island complex with an escort and proper PPE. This ex-BN SD40-2 is in the process of be... (more)

An NRE genset shuffles around several CP and a Savage GP in various states of rebuild at the former Rock Island shop in Silvis. The former SP EMD's were purchased by NRE with the intent to lease ... (more)

Sitting derelict in NRE's vast collection of locomotives, what's left of former BNSF (BN) 7829 sits on a pair of shop trucks while a former Santa Fe SD45-2 and SD45 sit in similar fashion.

Recently purchased by the Iowa Interstate's parent company, two Chinese 2-10-2 QJ's ride flatcars behind an IAIS GP38-2 into Rock Island where they will wait to be unloaded. The BNSF brought the ... (more)

Freshly rebuilt and reclassified as an SD60-3, 6304 sits on the whisker track at the Nahant Roundhouse showing off its new paint and re-incarnated beaver logo.