The gang's all here! Two Iowa Interstate QJs and NKP 765 bask in the late afternoon sun in Rock Island after their arrival in town for Train Festival 2011.

IAIS Chairman Henry Posner III takes a short walk up the track as as his QJ's and steam crews take a break from the extreme high temperatures hovering around 100 degrees.

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.

Iowa interstate QJ's led by the "Americanized" 6988 double head east smoking it up as they cross the diamonds in Grinnell.

Iowa Interstate's "Americanized" QJ 6988 makes its third test run of the day in preparation for Saturday's excursion.

One of Iowa Interstate's two Chinese steamers, pulls out of Rock Island.

While 7081 was on a Flood Relief Dinner train, 6988 is serviced and ready for the trip back to Newton the next day

Just after sun rise 6988 and 7081 charge eastward in some morning fog as they pull a record freight towards Rock Island.

Iowa Interstate QJs 6988 and 7081 lead ICRI down the street running in Davenport, dubbed as the longest steam powered freight of the 21st century.

IAIS 6988 and 7081 putting on a show as they depart from a water stop at Walcott,IA

Railfans scramble back to their cars to jump ahead to the next spot as Iowa Interstate 2-10-2 6988 slowly eases past the former Rock Island depot in the railroad's namesake city. The special was r... (more)

Through the fog. Iowa Interstate's doubleheaded 2-10-2s emerge from the fog and blast past the former Rock Island station in Wilton with a manifest freight. The Chinese imports were on thei... (more)

Iowa Interstate QJs 6988 and 7081 lead ICRI through Davenport, running down 5th Street.

They're weird, but they put on a show.