Chicago Clearing - Huron Manifest Train slows down to take the siding at SSS Green Island. Two southbounds are holding the main waiting for them to clear: M-HUCC and E-CSCC.
Loaded unit ethanol train to Chicago Clearing street running at Bellevue, IA.
Loaded unit ethanol train to Chicago Clearing enters Bellevue, IA.
Westbound for Waterloo, M33791 heads west in the early morning sun.
The Chicago - Waterloo long-distance local heads west after working at Farley, Dyersville and Delaware, IA.
The Waterloo - Chicago eastbound local has just met its westbound counterpart at the Beth siding. Next stop is the large VeraSun ethanol plant at Dyersville, IA for 2+ hours of work.
A suprise for power on today's local out of Waterloo. That is the IC 9602 smoking it up!
L563 is heading west back to Waterloo after departing Manchester. Two Iowa Northern GPs are in the consist: IANR 3803 & IANR 3800.
L563 is back from Cedar Rapids with a large train that is being set out on the north siding at Manchester. Two Iowa Northern GPs are in the consist: IANR 3803 & IANR 3800.
St. Paul - Kansas City Merchandise Train rolls south past the Mississippi River and the last of the fall colors on the bluffs.
A late-running MKCSP heads north into New Albin and passes Shooky Fink Memorial Field, home of the KEEHAWKS.
A late-running Kansas City - St. Paul Merchandise Train passes the bulldozers working the coal pile of the Alliant Energy Lansing Power Plant.
Unit ore train from Steeleton, MN - Birmingham, AL rolls past a CB&Q-era milepost marker.
High Priority Merchandise Train from Northtown Yard - Galesburg, IL rolls east on a windy late October day.
MSPKC rolls south across the Reno Bottoms. Unfortunately a CP engine is on the point - an all to common occurence these days.
