After a long delay from a natural gas leak in Oxford, IA that had the RR shut down for a few hours the BICB get under way with a new crew with the IAIS #513 Rock Island heritage unit leading.
Hurtling through Iowa City, Iowa, early on a June morning in 1966, Train 8, the Rocky Mountain Rocket, is running about five hours late behind E6A 631 and an unidentified second unit. Normally its... (more)
Milwaukee's daily Iowa City turn - behind a typical-for-the-time pair of SD10s - has dropped down the grade from the former Rock Island main to work industries in Iowa City's river bottoms area. ... (more)