IAIS 512 sits on the main with BICB while IAIS 506 brings CBBI into Silvis Yard during the first snow storm of the season. Once stopped in the yard, CBBI's crew will depart Silvis on BICB.
The BN Barstow drops off a car for Dohrn Transfer in the Lower Yard on its way to Bettendorf.
A westbound IAIS manifest crosses the Iowa River on its way out of town. The first three geeps are no longer on the roster while the fourth geep is being converted into a slug. Scanned from a 35... (more)
A lone ES44AC takes charge of BICB near Marengo.
Former Iowa Interstate 250 was sold to Patriot Renewable Fuels, LLC, an ethanol plant at Annawan, IL. She now wears a new coat of paint and serves as the plant switcher. She may be off the IAIS ... (more)
Five BNSF GE's of various ages - and cleanliness - hustle the San Bernadino to Willow Springs Z-train under the Santa Fe cantilever at "GI."
Iowa Interstate's Rock Island Switcher is hard at work on the Milan Branch as the crew prepares to switch Country Stone in the southwest portion of Rock Island.
Illinois Railway's Rockford job heads north across a typical Illinois country crossing.
The BNSF Barstow to Rock Island turn sports a freshly repainted GP50 with an added numberboard brow in downtown Moline.
A pair of KCS "Belles" await attention at CP's Nahant Yard while CP 4611 waits its turn for a load test.
IAIS slug-set 721/651 has pulled 8 empty coil steel cars from Steel Warehouse and is taking them back to Rock Island yard.
Iowa Interstate's Rock Island heritage leads CBBI along 5th Street.
A lone pony leads doublestacks west through the semophores at Brighton Park. Work is being done to automatic this manual junction with a rumored cutover of July 4, 2007.
An SD38-2 and three GP38-2s lead a Cedar Rapids bound coal train out of Peoria.
The 576 train passes the foundation of Culver Tower where the MILW mainline diverged from the Rock Island. NREX 7223 is on the Rock Island main.
