CN, UP--5/24/12

Added the "Horton" filter to this shot of the EJ&E 673 working today

at Cedar Rapids.

Westbound "Q" train near Indian Creek.

L563 @ Hiawatha, IA.

L563 hauling thru the weeds in Robins, IA.

Another photo with the "Horton" effect at Robins, IA.

What a nice surprise!!!

Eastbound "Q" train at MP 86.

See ya next time!!!

EJ&E 673 north. McLoud Place. May 16, 2012

CN, The Bird and The "J"

Met this train at Blairs Ferry Rd NE so the chase was on.

Here is the 75-car grain train with CN 5747 leading at

County Home Rd, north of Robins, IA.

Making the turn at Alburnett, IA.

Coming into Central City, IA.

Getting a little artsy-fartsy north of Coggon, IA

The grain train north of Coggon, IA.

Grain train at Ryan, IA.

Coming to the end of the Cedar Rapids branch at Manchester.

The train takes the west leg of the wye to continue to 

Waterloo, IA.

Here comes "the Bird" west of Bertram, IA.

CN's L563 departs Cedar Rapids with 11 cars and EJE 673.

L563 at Hiawatha.

L563 at Robins, IA.

See ya next time!!!

Quad Cities IA/IL-5/9/12

Before heading to the Quad Cities, CN had a pair of "J's" parked in the hole in "A" Yard.

A UP coal drag dips under the IAIS Govt Bridge in 

Davenport.

CP 3019 switches Nahant.

IC&E 114(ex SOO) idles in Nahant Yard.

High-hood shot.

A tight squeeze shot of SOO 1532.

That UP coal train again departing Nahant.

IC&E 6415 idling at the roundhouse. CITX 3054 is behind him.

The IC&E tanks at Nahant Yard.

Another SOO switcher sits dead in the yard.

IC&E 6415, the "City of Garner" unit.

IC&E 4205

Heads and tails

A Saskatchewan hopper in Nahant Yard.

BICB08 crossing the Govt Bridge and passing the eastbound

distance signal in Davenport.

IC&E 6403 north heads for the clear at SSS Bettendorf, with the CP Rail Train.

Few minutes later the CP Weed Sprayer heads in the hole

at SSS Bettendorf.

This southbound freight train with IC&E 6428 on the point of train 273 continues south after meeting the Rail Train and the Weed Sprayer train at SSS Bettendorf. The switch is operated by radio control from the engineer by dial-toning a code into the switch, very similar to the switch at Yocum Connection on the Iowa Interstate.

CP 273 had a very nice paint scheme from CITX 3072 behind the leader.

IAIS 509 east with the ICSI passing by the local machine shop

Few minutes later, CBBI08 comes into Rock Island with 507, 500 and 120 cars.

See ya next time!!!