Smokin! Iowa 716 and 511 team up to lead an eastbound extra through New Lenox.

CBBI crosses the McPherson Avenue overpass that recently had the east and west approaches replaced.

An eastbound Iowa Interstate extra heads east through New Lenox on a sunny February morning.

The west train, with 2 east facing engines, passes the west end of Moline siding.

The west train crosses Fillmore St on its way through Davenport. In the Rock Island days, this was Missouri Division Jct where the mainline to Kansas City split from the mainline to Omaha. Now t... (more)

The "Bureau Rocket" crew builds their train, before heading to Utica.

A 3 way meet on the Iowa Interstate. IAIS 502 brings CBBI into the west end of Silvis yard while IAIS 150 awaits a crew to take BICB west towards Council Bluffs, IA. Meanwhile NS 2532 switches out... (more)

Rumbling eastbound on the old Rock Island main line, Iowa Interstate train CBBI (Council Bluffs, Iowa, to Blue Island, Illinois) approaches Atlantic, Iowa, on April 12, 2016.

The Iowa Interstate for a long time was a small geep railroad. In 2008 they step into the big power world buy purchasing 12 GEVO's from GE. That put an end to the small geep era. Here the west tra... (more)

The Iowa Interstate Railroad's second Rock Island inspired locomotive sits outside the facility that painted it, Mid-America Car, as one of their plant switchers goes about its business. I have t... (more)

The "Foamer Express" as dubbed by the Iowa Interstate crews this afternoon. The 516 on its first revenue run leaves Rock Island yard with the Abby Station in the background.

516 West at Moline

On the last day of 2016, IAIS 516 and a GP38 move at a steady 10mph down the old Rock Island mainline.

IAIS 502 & 505 bring CBBI into Silvis Yard on a bright August morning.

Really old and really new. Iowa Interstate GP10 #451 leads a freight that includes some brand new Metra locomotives thru Blue Island, IL in November of 1991.