Obsolete switchstands are the only clue that a busy yard once stood here as grain train CP 322 heads to the Port of Montreal. In the distance at far right is the Olympic Stadium's tower.
It's a chilly February morning in Avery, Iowa as a BNSF ES44AC and SD70ACe lead eastbound coal loads past frozen farm fields. This is one of the sections of split main on the Ottumwa Subdivision, ... (more)