Union Pacific's United Way painted SD40-2 leads the Proviso to Council Bluffs manifest through Morrison on a mild spring afternoon.

Here's the new look of the Hawkeye Express. Fans headed to the University of Iowa football games board near IAIS' Vernon siding for the 3.3 mile run to Kinnick Stadium.

MILW 261 thunders out of Mile Creek siding at track speed trying to make up lost time on her way back to Wisconsin Dells and eventually Milwaukee.

The Amtrak 40th Anniversary Train hitches a ride behind train 381, the Carl Sandburg, as it arrives at Galesburg. The train is on display in Galesburg this weekend.

Blue and yellow dominates the Nahant roundhouse area on this day in 2008.

Iowa Interstate 516 sits on the North RIP track and Iowa Interstate's "new" excursion cars get some attention on the South RIP track at Silvis.

The Rocket works the Transfer siding east of the depot in Bureau. The first car, ex-Rock Island, is right at home on ex-Rock Island trackage.

A trio of Warbonnet Dash 9's lead the M-GALGAL into the siding at Warner.

With the landscape covered in snow and rim frost, CP's West Davenport Switcher runs "down the hill" from servicing the interchange with the Davenport Industrial Railroad near Eldridge.

Keokuk Junction's ABA F-units lead a pair of ex-ATSF GP20s and about 40 cars of pipe over the BNSF Brookfield Sub at Bushnell. The pipe came off the Union Pacific in the Peoria area and is being ... (more)

Newly acquired by the SRNJ, the three IAIS M420r's 800-802 are waiting to be moved east after they recieved some pre-delivery attention by the IAIS shop.

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A newer BNSF Tier 4 GE leads a 15-car business train on a deadhead move from the Twin Cities back to home base at Topeka through the Illinois countryside between Rio and Galesburg.

The BJRY sets cars out for the UP to pick up later.

5 IAIS engines and 3 NS engines bring the "eastbound" into Silvis in the form of a combined CBBI and empty coal CRPE.