The sun is shining but temps still hover in the minus teens while two IAIS products, one new from GE and the other built decades before my birth, of the EMD company, idle out a work window before ... (more)
The Iowa Interstate is one of the few regional railroads to have their entire fleet painted in a common scheme. Here, a GEVO and two GP38-2's bringing the CBBI into Iowa City crossing the Iowa Riv... (more)
RIBI continues its eastbound journey to Blue Island, powered by the Rock Island 513 and IAIS 720.
Iowa Interstate ES44AC 513, the Rock Island heritage unit, passes the 1912-built Joliet Union Station, crossing the BNSF, CN and UP diamonds and running down the old Rock Island main.
Taking to Metra rails, the extra ethanol heads east, climbing the grade out of Joliet.
The 513 and 720 are in run 8, as they haul their heavy ethanol train through Minooka.
The Rock Island heritage unit slows to a stop, in Rockdale. In the process, it passes a set of Rock Island searchlights, that still stand, albeit being inactive for quite some time.
Iowa Interstate 513, the Rock Island heritage unit, passes under US Route 47, in Morris, as it heads for Blue Island, with extra ethanol from the Quad Cities.
The nicely restored Grinnell depot frames the west train crossing the UP.
The classic 513 lifts an eastbound ethanol train up Mokena hill through scenic Pilcher Park.
The west train gets on the rolls out of Iowa City on a picture-perfect October Sunday.
A pair of GEVO's, 504 and 513 head towards Iowa City at MP244.
With fall foliage and historic Kinnick Stadium in the background, 513 leads a line of power waiting in the yard.
Sunday! Sunday! Sunday! The race is on, and, the IAIS wins! In this edition of Superchargers, despite getting a good jump at the line, the truck will soon be overtaken by the west train's hole s... (more)
