The ICG works the Quaker Oats plant in the new orange colors, still lettered for IC, a job that was based in Cedar Rapids. After working in CR, the train would run up to Manchester with it's cars... (more)
IC 8032 works the Cedar Rapids yard. To the left is the turntable and part of the engine house that have been long ago demolished.
A pair or Georgia Northeastern locomotives (GP10 & high hood GP9) spend this Sunday resting on a siding near the Holly Springs Depot.
A loaded IEI coal train is putting half their train away in the center siding at East Dubuque, before spotting the other half at IEI Barge Terminal, about 3 miles south of here. In 1993 this track... (more)
New RSSX "Leaf" Genset waiting in the CN Decatur yard for delivery to ADM. Built from a GP 10 using a Detroit Diesel low emission engine. This is ADM's third Genset from RSSX.
PAL's University of Kentucky painted GP10 leads its CSX transfer train back to its own yard.
Westbound empty grain train passes thru the east end of Peosta, 14 miles west of Dubuque, IA. IC did paint some of the old CC&P geeps into the black "Deathstar" scheme before most of the units wer... (more)
In March 1997 the Illinois Central was running intermodel trains from Chicago, IL, to Council Bluffs, IA, over the old CC&P. Here westbound I-11 blast thru Benson curve east of New Hartford with a... (more)
Iowa Interstate 404 and 481 are leading an afternoon westbound at Joliet, Illinois. The 404 was built as IC GP9 9004, and rebuilt to GP10 8004 in 1968. It was sold to IAIS in October 1984.
Just another GP-10. Where are they all now I wonder.
I had been here about a month and P&L had been existence about three months when I shot this WB local. The logo hadn't show up yet but IC or ICG was gone.
Another freshly painted Paducah Geep by the grain silos.
This is another example of recently painted unit in silver. It's okay when fresh but lacks something.
This unit really seemed to like the E'town local and was here before getting a repaint.
The E'town local is EB approacing an old truss bridge with a few cars for local industries.