ICE 203 South, with the #919 job departs Nahant Yard for Montpelier, and IPSCO Steel Works. After picking up some flats in the pocket at Montpelier, the train will take their cut up the controlled... (more)

IAIS 702 and friends wait near the ex-RI Depot in Rock Island before heading west on the "BICB" freight later in the day.

IAIS 711 poses in front of Abbey Station, formerly the CRI&P Rock Island Depot.

SP train "CHOAF" (Chicago-Oakland Forwarder) awaits their turn to snake through the Galesburg area, and grab the "Quincy" main for Kansas City, and home rails.

Looking good, SP 8361 idles at Galesburg, Illinois.

Having just met the BNSF Barstow Local at the siding in Bettendorf, ICE 6436 with the MSPKC marches toward Nahant Yard to get switched out, and re-crewed.

Cotton Belt power runs through on the former Wabash as SSW 9651 East hammers through Jacksonville, Illinois with an NS manifest.

With a warrant good to Iowa City, Rock Island turn RIIC passes through Stockton, Iowa.

SOO 787 East swings through Clinton, Iowa with a manifest freight.

SOO Line combo train 430/442/220 Detours on the BN to gain home rails at Savanna, IL. Due to the floods of 1993 taking out the SOO between Savanna, and Davenport, Iowa, trains were detoured for a ... (more)

IAIS train "RIPE" coasts past the city memorial park with Peoria bound manifest.

IAIS 721 East Splits the grain silos at Mineral, Illinois on a bitter cold January morning. Running as manifest symbol "RIPE", this train will turn south at Bureau Junction, and head for Peoria fo... (more)

The BNSF Barstow Local rolls through east Davenport on ICE trackage rights towards Bettendorf. Shuffling a few cars at Bettendorf Yard, and a run out to ALCOA's Davenport Works in Riverdale are on... (more)

The DRI Line job just in from Rock Island ties up for the last time at Bettendorf Yard on the last day of operations.

Straight from the bowels of the ex-IMRL deadline at Nahant is the ICE 231. On the point of the MSPKC in the fall of '93. Most of the ex-IMRL SD-40s have pulled out of storage, and pressed into ser... (more)