Working its way west thru the snowy country side
If wasnt bad enough with all the junk DM&E/CP has running around, I hear they have lease more junk from NRE now. Here one of the beast leads L579 west towards Mason City near Charles City. Getting... (more)
This 579 has begin trying to get from Marquette to Mason City for the past 48 hours. Due to the last winter storm this power has helped 2 eastbounds up hills and out of snow drifts, plus 579 has b... (more)
Crawling past the distant for the Iowa Northern crossing
After digging it out from the snow drift the day before its out and running the next day.
Well 579 was to cutoff its train at Ossian and run their power over to Ft Atkinson to help 606 up Calmar Hill since they had bad power. Due to 579 having bad power too and authority restricting th... (more)