Sporting her new "Americanized" look, Iowa Interstate's QJ #6988 leads the Iowa City excursion east.
The QJ's make the return trip home after the Train Festival in Rock Island.
QJs 6988 & 7088 team up to haul the "Turn" eastbound out of Iowa City, showing they can turn a buck while on the way to Trainfest 2011 in the Quad Cities.
Waiting for Amtrak. The ex-Rock Island Depot in Iowa City is illuminated by the headlight of the RIIC switching their train. Pending the outcome of the state budget, Iowa City may once again see p... (more)
A pair of UP units, surround an IAIS GEVO, visit the Iowa Interstate yard taking part in a joint venture between the UP and IAIS to deliver coal to ADM in Cedar Rapids.
513 leading the eastbound has just crossed the Iowa River and heads into the yard.
504 leads the daily CBBI past the remains of a Rock Island signal post on the east end of the Homestead siding.
155 years later, trains still pass under this marker placed on the Summit Street Bridge commemorating the history of the first railroad into Iowa City in 1856. Here, Rock Island heritage GEVO 513 ... (more)
Iowa Interstate's CSX connection. Even though all IAIS GEVO's were built to CSX heavy specs, Rock Island heritage 513 and 512, part of a cancelled CSX order are the two newest GEVO's in the roster... (more)
A sad day for IAIS and Rock Island fans. GEVO 510 leads GP's 400 and 485 on their last trip east, both locos have been sold and are now heading for a new home. 400 was always a favorite of fans as... (more)
An overhead view of a nose to nose pair of GP38-2's.
513 pushes a gon off the main onto the siding in a snow filled yard.
Cold steel on steel. Rock Island heritage GEVO 513 is DP'ed into Iowa City on the end of the Cedar Rapids turn.
An Iowa Interstate plow train backs into the racks at Iowa City for fuel before pushing on west. IAIS' plow #7511 led the Council Bluffs-Bureau flip after a strong winter storm drifted the eastern... (more)
513 and 503 are gathered at the sand tower on a cold December night.