Heading down river along the great river road.
Hitting the bottom of the sag they still have more of train over the hill as he is still in notch 8, A hard line to run a great one to shoot.
About 5 miles south of River Jct.
After crossing out of IL and in to Iowa this crew has 100 miles left in their day.
Cresting one Hog back after another and draped over 2, Only 3 more before the their yard at Waterloo.
Iowa Northern ran a Family reunion train at the old Rock Island depot in Downtown Cedar Falls.
Making a pick up off the old Wloo RR yard before heading West on the CN
Crossing the Cedar thats 10'+ higher then normal do to a rainy June with a nice set of power and light.
Slowly dragging over the scale at about 5 MPH, Thats fun at a crossing.
Last train with good light runs track speed 2X1 DPU
The train on the Left is on main 2 the grade is .39% in the new trench and the coal EMTs are on the old main 1 .82% that is now used as a siding, Cold and Sunny day.
This can be a hard spot to shoot as the Flood of 08 had trees across the trail into the spot.
With the end of this trains day about 20 miles west and passing the Rudd elevator.
L571 makes it's way West after sunset.
Junk train with 2 SD9043's one in DPU
