The Iowa Northern's North Crew is southbound at Rockford. They pass the classic Rock Island depot with the old-school ex-BN GP9 leader. The IANR used these ex-BN for a while until they got their GP20s in the late 90s.
According to the Internet...1886, GP9, was built by EMD in July 1956 as Northern Pacific #263. It became Burlington Northern #1886, Class GP-9, in 1970 and retired in July 1983. It was sold to Azcon Corp. in August 1983 and sold as IANR 1886.
Scanned negative from January 1993.
Photographs where trains and people mix, weather it's street running, plant switching or carrying a unit grain train out of an elevator, it will be put here.
