Some what odd ball leader for a hot Z9 is this SD70ACe. The train has just departed Fort Madison after a crew change. This crew will handle the last leg of the trip to Chicago, another 230 miles a... (more)
Westbound empties.
Empty coal buckets head west on the little photographed Brainerd Subdivision.
Snow begins to fall again as the noes of an EMD SD70ACe acts like a knife and cuts a pathway through it with its Q train for Northern California.