Pounding the old GM&O and ATSF main’s on the former Rock Island, IAIS BICB heads west past the historic UD Interlocking Tower at Joliet Union Station. IAIS 513, Iowa Interstate’s Rock Island h... (more)

IAIS GP38-2 705 leads SISW WEst through Moline, heading to Rock Island yard and eventually the CPKC interchange in Davenport.

IAIS ES44AC 503 leads BICB West past a old Rock Island signal in Davenport.

512 is the lead engine of mixed freight train coming off one of Cal-Sag Channel steel bridges and within second will cross Blue Island double diamond on its way south.

Coming from Cedar Rapids with ethanol this train will take the east leg of the wye at South Amana, drop the SD38 helper and proceed east. Quite a grade on this ex-MILW? line. I wonder why they p... (more)

Iowa Interstate EMD GP38-2 No. 708 and EMD SD38-2 No. 153 momentarily sit idle at Atlantic, Iowa, on April 6, 2016.

Iowa Interstate train CBBI passing the Grinnell Station on the former Rock Island crossing over the UP Oskaloosa Sub (former Minneapolis & St Louis line)

The yard dog.

A pair of Iowa Interstate ES44AC's lead a unit ethanol train running as BICB as it takes the siding in Brooklyn, Iowa and heads west, meeting the eastbound CBBI freight that's holding on the main.... (more)

after a another storm rolls through IAIS 703 and 152 comes onto the connector track building its train in CPs West Davenport Yard.

IAIS GP38-2 714 leads the business train West through Moline.

IAIS GP38-2 714 leads the business train West through Moline.

IAIS GP38-2 714 leads the business train West through Davenport.

IAIS GP38-2 714 leads the business train West through East Moline.

With a GEVO and two GP's on the head end and another GEVO bringing up the rear, the Iowa Interstate's CBBI is climbing through Altoona, Iowa and passing by the Landus Cooperative's grain elevator.... (more)