A nearly new Oakway SD60 and a Cascade Green BN U30C back onto the ISU power plant siding to pick up a string of emprty hoppers to head west.
Two SD60M's haul a load of coal up grade from Ottumwa, Iowa approaching the small town of Agency.
It's nearing sunset when westbound UP ES44AC 7855 rounds the bend under US 13 bridge and heads for Cedar Rapids with a load of containers.
GEVO 505 is on the point of the CRIC as it approaches Coralville, Iowa.
A string of loaded hoppers push three GP38-2's down grade from the Swisher blacktop on an early spring morning. At Yocum Connection, the three units left the train for the west bound to pick up an... (more)
505 East has just gotten a warrant from the dispatcher and pulls up the east leg of the wye at Yocum Connection from the CRANDIC (ex-Milwaukee line) Amana line on to the IAIS east main.
All EMD. GP38-2 714 is in the lead of the BICB as it leans into the curve at Chambers Avenue east of Oxford, Iowa. 154 SD38-2 still in blue was the last of the SD's to receive IAIS colors.
GEVO 509 slows to hold the main at the west end of the Walcott siding waiting for the RIIC to come out of Rock Island.
GEVO 509 heads the east bound CBBI through Atalissa, iowa.
GEVO 510 slows to take the siding at Walcott.
BNSF 1001 leads the east bound stacker approaching Burke Siding.
SPS GREX 6000 provides the power for a tie train tied up in the BNSF yard at Savanna, Illinois.
A few minutes after 5 PM finds IAIS GEVO 500 and GP38-2 701 leading the westbound BICB east of Homestead, Iowa.
A pair of DME SD40-2's work the yard at Savana, Illinois.
With the arrival of the GEVO's on the Iowa Interstate, this is a sight not likely to be seen again. Four SD38-2's led by 153 crest the hill at the Benton-Iowa County Line Road Bridge with a NOKL c... (more)
