The Moon & Decorating the Tree

11/27--The moon in the last quarter stage, over our

corner bush in the front of our house.

11/28--Isaac......

....and Bekah decorating the Christmas tree.

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

May Your Thanksgiving be filled with good times, games, family and lots of

Turkey. Happy Thanksgiving!!!

from "eastern iowa railpics"--Oct 20 to Nov 10, 2010

10/20--UP 3836 east-UPS pig train[a.k.a. The Bird]

10/20--UP 6898 crossing over from 1 to 2 at CPA086

with a loaded coal train.

10/27--CN L563 with 5273 & EJE 664 coming into 

town along I-380 with 57 cars.

11/3--Amtrak #6 detoured over the UP for a couple day

due to bridge work in Burlington, IA on the BNSF

Ottumwa Sub. Here UP 8532 pulls #6 thru Fairfax

at 70MPH.

11/3--A pair of GP9's are the power for CIC's Job 5;

working on pulling hoppers to ADM's "Dry Grind"

plant.

11/3--CIC Job 5 shoving the hoppers into "Dry Grind".

11/3--EJE 664 takes the lead on CN L563 north

with 29 cars bound for Manchester.

11/3--A view of the train passing by McCloud Place NE.

11/10--Iowa Interstate's CRIC10 with 502, 500 on

the head-end and 508 pushing on the rear; passing

Amana with 100 cars.

11/10--CRIC10 passing MP 19.

11/10--CRIC10 nearing the top of the east wye @ Yocum.

11/10--CRIC10 passing thru Homestead and the

local feed mill.

11/10--CRIC10 nearing some ex-RI block signals

at Eagle.

11/10--CRIC10 passing the Hawkeye Express parked

in the Vernon siding. The Express is owned by the Iowa

Northern Rwy.

11/10--A UP eastbound merchandise train's DPU(left)

passes a westbound UP empty coal train east of 

Stanwood, IA.

11/10--An eastbound coal train gets his green light

after meeting one each way at Stanwood, IA

Recent photos

October 2010: My second "wooly" worm sighting.

They can be great forecasters for winter. 

Black=cold; brown=warm.

August 2010: Deer in the bushes next to a soybean field

on Old Bridge Rd SW.

August 2010: Rabbit on Irish Rd near Mt. Vernon, IA

May 2010: Chipmunk eating on our patio.

May 2010(Trainboard Prototype Winner): A Row of

MOW's at Beverly Yard, Cedar Rapids, IA.