A westbound RI freight passes under the 7th Street viaduct in downtown Des Moines. Doing the honors, and all decked out in the newer blue and white color scheme, are slug-set 298-284-297. It is ... (more)
An eastbound Rock Island freight grabs orders from the operator at Culver Tower in Muscatine where the MILW mainline from Kansas City joined the RI mainline to Davenport.
On a cloudy/bright winter day, 1720 and a pair of U18Bs lead a freight south on the ex-ACL Thomasville line. That's SCL's Waycross line in the foreground, while the Southern is behind the photogr... (more)