"That's a good eater!" Babe Winkelman would be proud of the hardcore bass fishermen getting ready to fire up a local bass tournament while the crew of MSPKC holds the main at LeClaire siding to me... (more)
This Westbound train was stopped to check out a bad order car.
Milwaukee 261 steams a long the Mississippi River.
Milwaukee 261 pauses for a ballast train to clear ahead if her train. Yes, it was stopped.
Rerouted due to trackwork on UP's east-west main in Iowa, UP 5547 leads a stack train south on the Iowa, Chicago & Eastern at LeClaire, Iowa. This train will take the ICE main to Polo MO, then gra... (more)
An ICE grain train skirts along the frozen Mississippi River on a bitter cold January day.
A southbound manifest with a new crew is ready to head south to Nahant Yard after meeting the ICE Clinton local.
MILW 261 romps along the IC&E's less than perfect track (see all the loose spikes?) But we ain't skeered. Fuji Astia 100, Olympus OM-4T, Zuiko 300mm f4.5
I&M Rail Link 209 leads a Northbound 232 type train out and Nahant (Davenport Iowa) into the small town of Leclaire Iowa. 232 is a daily Mix train from the joint run (KCS Yard) in Kansas City KS t... (more)