BNSF's Barstow job approaches the radio switch at SSS Bettendorf on ICE's River sub.
Cotton Belt makes a guest appearance in Iowa.
Sitting on the south side of the plant waiting for a crew.
ICE 6212 South passes the signal guarding the new radio remote switch at the south end of Bettendorf siding.
These beasts lead a SP coal drag for a nearby customer on the SOO Line as it passes the Dri-Line yard office at Bettendorf. This train's route took it over Tennessee Pass and across Kansas on the... (more)
BNSF's Clinton to Bettendorf local heads south on IC&E rails in front of MidAmerican Energy's Riverside Generating Station.
The "BN Barstow" waits on the Alcoa Spur Duck Creek bridge for a northbound IC&E freight before it can work its way home for Barstow, IL.
ICE GP40-2 4206 and a former SOO/IMRL GP9 pull down the Bettendorf siding to meet the southbound MSPKC. 06:12AM.
A BNSF local sits crewless along the ICE mainline on this Sunday morning as the sun rises in Bettendorf, IA. 06:03AM.
IC&E's MNACC (6427) and IC&E's MCCNA (6415) perform a rolling meet in the siding at Bettendorf.
The BRC-Nahant manifest passes the old DRI&NW depot in Bettendorf. It is now used by the IC&E's M-of-W department.
DME 6097 meets a northbound ICE train headed towards Savanna.
Rack train "ASPKC" sits in the darkness at the Bettendorf, Iowa siding waiting to meet an MKCSP train just out of Nahant Yard.
Looking very much in place next to the old Milwaukee Road station sign, 261 heads upriver home to St. Paul.
IC&E's #918 turn comes south out of the hole at Bettendorf, Iowa after meeting the northbound #918. Power from sister road DM&E leads the charge.