Busy times on the IAIS as two trains are meeting with the yard job on another track! CBBI with the 502 pulls into the yard as BICB with the 150 awaits its turn to leave.
Power off an inbound grain train is about to back through the TZPR yards to get put on an outbound Cedar Rapids coal train. Of local note, IAIS power is rarely seen at this point on the TZPR.
Westbound Blue Island - Council Bluffs road freight passes the New Lenox Metra depot at its normal 2045hrs appearance.
Iowa Interstate's Blue Island - Council Bluffs road freight waits for the Metra rush to end before it proceeds west. The SD38s are finally making their way to Chicagoland.
Iowa Interstate 150 and sister SD38-2s 154 & 155 lead a foursome of GP38-2s (711, 706, 710 & 708) en route to Walford, Iowa, with the daily Iowa City to Cedar Rapids turn. Heavy trains and sti... (more)
A late running turn departs the siding at Walcott after meeting CBBI. All 4 SD38-2s and 4 GP38-2s team up to take 103 empty ADM covered hoppers west.
A late RIIC turn passes Atalissa with IAIS's four SD-38-2s.
IAIS' "RIIC" train passes Wilton, Iowa with six axle power.
IAIS 150 West through Durant, Iowa with the Rock Island turn.
The Cedar Rapids turn slides through Walford on its way to the IAIS mainline with 3 SD38-2s and a GP38-2.
The Cedar Rapids turn battles up the grade out of Fairfax on its way to the IAIS mainline with 3 SD38-2s and a GP38-2. Man, those non-turbo's sounded sweet!
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