The westbound Blue Island - Council Bluffs road freight arrives South Amana as is passes the wye connection for the Cedar Rapids Sub.
The race is on! IAIS BICB (Blue Island, Illinois - Council Bluffs, Iowa) notches up along US Route 30 through 35.5 after waiting for Metra’s to clear.
CRSA has just finished its work at the CIC Smith Dows Yard a departs Cedar Rapids with cars for South Amana
The 0630 SACR rolls into the CRANDICs "950" yard with a nice lash up of 2 GEVOs and 3 GEEPs. The Interstate Car Man helps out the 0630 giving the conductor a ride to line switches so the... (more)
IAIS 504 & 513 lead BICB through Tinley Park Illinois.
Train BICB was DP'ed 1x1 today. Here the 504 dynamics are howling as the train slows down to work the elevator on the old main line at Hancock, IA.
An ES44AC teams up with a GP38-2 on a loaded potash train from the Quad Cities to Peoria.
Iowa Interstate ES44AC is a lone GE amid a sea of GP38-2s in the road's yard in Council Bluffs, Iowa, on May 14th, 2013. Photographed on railroad property with permission and full PPE.
The Iowa backs past the closed gate tower in Blue Island as it heads for the IHB yard.
The IAIS is crossing BNSF's Crescent Bridge over the Mississippi River while their normal route over the River is closed for a bridge replacement curfew. The unique bridge was completed in 1898 b... (more)
Iowa 504 leads a late CBBI east out of Joliet.
Iowa 504 leads a late CBBI east past Pilcher Park.
A late CBBI heads east out of Joliet on a sunny morning.
The three Iowas are making quite a racket as they haul a heavy CBBI out of the Joliet River Valley.
Iowa 504, 152 and 151 head east through Rockdale, advancing up to Bridge 407 to await the 10:24 Metra's departure out of Joliet.
