Red Yellow & Black...Iowa Interstate's new Rock Island-inspired GEVO is fresh out of Mid America and nosed into one of KCS's Belle ACe's, KCS 4176.
On what looks like a lovely day was actually a bitterly cold day at three degrees with a 30mph wind. So I bundled up and walked a few blocks from my parking spot to shoot this Iowa Interstate GP38... (more)
Just moments after being released from Mid America Car, IAIS 516 sits hooked to a KCS SD70ACe in the southern belle scheme. Both units wear very similar colors as they soak up the cold February su... (more)
Sitting alone, in the middle of a mid February snow storm. IAIS 516 in a Rock Island tribute scheme sits on the KCS ready track at Mid America Car.
A roster shot of Iowa Interstate EMD SD38-2 sitting in Henry, IL awaiting for passengers to board an excursion, south, to Chillicothe. This unit was originally built as RSMX (Reserve Mining) 1243 ... (more)
A nose-to-nose comparison of two classic schemes on modern widecab locomotives-- one executed a little better than the other.
Just released from Mid America Car IAIS' newly painted unit sits on the ready track waiting for KCS to pick it up.
This afternoon, Mid-America Car in KC released the Iowa Interstate #516 and placed it out on the setout track for the KCS. The paint on this is a nod to the Rock Island's red and yellow from the ... (more)
Iowa Interstate QJ's 6988 and 7081 double-head a freight train from Iowa City to Rock Island to position themselves for Train Festival 2011.
156 sits in the shop at South Amana. Taken with permission.
513, in DPU mode, passes the east wye switch at Yocum Connection in the midst of a 12" snowstorm.
The 721/651 slug set works the Milan Branch for the first time following Super Bowl Sunday's blizzard that dropped 13 inches on the Quad Cities.
The 721/651 slug set works the Milan Branch for the first time following Super Bowl Sunday's blizzard that dropped 13 inches on the Quad Cities. ** I was standing outside the gauge on a public gr... (more)
