With the Rock Island heritage leading a seven unit consist, the Iowa Interstate's BICB gets on the move out of Iowa City, Iowa after holding to meet the 6988 steam special. The train is crossing o... (more)

BICB takes the main through CSX’s Rockdale Yard with IAIS 516, the anniversary ES44AC leading in the last bit of light left.

The westbound Blue Island - Council Bluffs road freight arrives South Amana as is passes the wye connection for the Cedar Rapids Sub.

BICB heads west through New Lenox for Council Bluffs with the usual solo gevo up front, in the last minutes of sunlight.

On a hot summer evening, BICB sits tied down at Silvis with a trusty SD38-2 and a GEVO while they wait for a crew to take it to Council Bluffs.

IAIS GP38-2 703 leads BICB West through Tinley Park.

The race is on! IAIS BICB (Blue Island, Illinois - Council Bluffs, Iowa) notches up along US Route 30 through 35.5 after waiting for Metra’s to clear.

IAIS 509 leads BICB-28 over the Iowa River in Iowa City, IA.

After meeting SASI minutes prior, BICB continues its journey west rounding the curve in Moscow.

IAIS 509 leads BICB-28 towards the Hwy 6 grade crossing, just "west" of West Liberty, IA.

IAIS 513 leads BICB-11 towards Oxford, Iowa.

The sun has started to break out as the 1100 Newton Switcher crew brings BICB east out of Ladora Iowa. Trailing on this days BICB is a N&S GP60 and a GMTX (ex KCS) cab end Switcher. The NS GP70 is... (more)

The daily BICB heads west through Iowa City nearing sunset. The train had a pretty bad flat spot several cars back, which required the train to stop for several minutes making us almost miss it i... (more)

The Jewel Of Joliet. On the evening of Wednesday, June 16, 2021, Iowa Interstate Railroad's BICB (Blue Island, Illinois-Council Bluffs, Iowa) crosses the diamond in Joliet, Illinois. IAIS 518 (GE ... (more)

Over the past few weeks the usual east and west trains on the IAIS have been running on a new schedule to accommodate a tie project going on on the Iowa City Subdivision making for nice afternoon ... (more)