The disappearance of the Milwaukee Road is near. This Milwaukee unit still looks good but little time remains before it becomes a black bandit.
"The Turn" heads west down 5th Street on its way to Iowa City and eventually Cedar Rapids.
KCS ACes head up an IAIS syrup train being handed over to the IC&E at West Dav Yard.
Iowa Interstate QJs 6988 and 7081 lead ICRI down the street running in Davenport, dubbed as the longest steam powered freight of the 21st century.
A tardy West train out of Rock Island passes through the junction behind a GE-EMD combo.
The stone train pulls at Nahant. Back then this train rated a caboose.
The conductor on the East train's power braves a sunny, but cold Iowa afternoon while they crawl west, back towards their train, having just finished the DM&E set out at Taylor Street.
On the last day of independance, several IC&E engines await their next assignment or servicing at Nahant Yard. On January 1, the IC&E would cease to exist, being folded into the DM&E.
The Iowa City turn heads east for Rock Island yard, seen here passing the junction in Davenport.
IC&E 6419 sits next to the stretched-out Iowa and Illinois state flags on New Years Day.
A 20th-anniversary emblem graces the side of a DM&E loco at Nahant Yard.
IC&E 4200 changes switch crews at the yard office.
DM&E 6070 South pulls up to the yard office at the extreme north end of the yard.
DM&E 3801 idles in front of the yard office that is laced with icicles.
GP38 3801 idl;es next to the yard office.
