IAIS 718 East with a 29-car "RIPE" manifest train rounds the curve at the east end of Sheffield, Illinois.

BNSF "UEMLMCI" departs Barstow with a solid block of John Deere combines. Once at Galesburg, the train will get on the former ATSF main into McCook, IL for hand off to the NS.

Iowa Interstate's RISW job rides down the BNSF Industrial Track towards the IAIS yard at Rock Island.

An ICE feeder train symbol "FMCKC" passes over a county highway near Luanna, Iowa with KCS 745 East teamed up with sister 735.

DMIR #308 hustles a train through Keenan, Minnesota.

Still alive and turning a wheel, DM&IR 308 leads a train through Iron Junction, late Summer 2004.

BNSF grain extra "GMANSTL" passes MP 47.3 at Osborn, Illinois on the Barstow Subdivision with MRL 258 leading the way to Galesburg.

ICE 6402 and 4201 (GP-40) idle at Nahant Yard on a warm Spring afternoon. The 6402 will go out later today as the #921 local to IPSCO's Montpelier Works.

The #919 IPSCO job drags southbound towards the Montpelier works with a couple of ratty ex-Conrail SD-40s.

Inbound ICE train MSPKC tucks it's train clear of Wapello Avenue before cutting the power off, and heading for the roundhouse.

MILW 261 North passes through the Davenport river front with Saturday's run to Savanna, Illinois as part of the Grand Excursion of 2004.

With a fresh crew out of Clinton, "QNPEL" (North Platte NE-Elkhart IN) manifest lead by UP 4032 clangs through Morrison, IL on a warm early Spring day.

ICE 6454 South, with the MSPKC sits in the hole at Camanche siding awaiting counterpart northbound MKCSP.

Idling away on a warm summer night, ICE 614 pulling West Dav switcher duties stands down for an inbound "MSPKC" train.

Performing dog-catcher duty, ICE's crew off the #915 job (Clinton local) brings an MSPKC train past the Clinton Water treatment plant, en-route to Nahant Yard in Davenport.