The east train swings onto the Mississippi River bridge before crossing into the City of Rock Island.
A rail train with a pair of SD38-2s pass Missouri Division Junction on their way west to dump new rail.
DM&E's 170 train from St Paul to KC wades through the rising floodwaters in downtown Davenport. This would be one of the last trains through town before the railroad was shut down in the evening ... (more)
A "DM&E Rail System" duce waits for it's next assignment at Nahant.
IC&E 6405 is ex- UP 6760, an SD40-2 built in March of 1980.
With the sun already partially below the horizon, an Iowa Interstate train with interchange from DM&E heads across the Government Bridge from Davenport, Iowa to Rock Island, Illinois. The double ... (more)
A pair of MILW FMs await their next work at Davenport, Iowa in the summer of 1975
Southbound on ICE ex Milwaukee Road.
A pair of UP AC4400CW's lead a coal train through Davenport, about to pass the Nahant Yard.
A manifest arrives at Nahant Yard, powered by a pair of classic SD40-2's.
Must have used some of that water base paint on former Milwaukee 496!
An extra West Quincy to Des Moines empty grain train detours over the IAIS to Des Moines to avoid congestion on the BNSF Des Moines branch.
Late in the afternoon, a DM&E freight heads north through Davenport's fall foliage.
It's dusk at Davenport's busy and colorful waterfront as a northbound DM&E freight approaches.