UP 8683 East

UP 7749 East

Another nice lashup

Highlight: UP 2554 East

Nice lashup-BICB22

Solar Eclipse 2017

Although we did not get to see totality of the eclipse here in Eastern Iowa, I did manage to get the best shots from the Eclipse from the video camera lens plus the clouds were filtering the sun quite a bit.

Here are my best shots from the Solar Eclipse on August 21, 2017.

7-unit BICB/NSPEDM

Thanks to a heads up by Robert Sabbe in Davenport, a 7-unit combined BICB/NSPEDM ascends toward Paul's Crossing west of Tiffin, IA on the Iowa Interstate Iowa City Sub.

August 18, 2017

Two Iowa City Sub Westbounds

NS 1024 West-MP 248.9

BICB13-Paul's Crossing

Back to Back "Z" Trains

UP 3012 West

NS 1046 East

CN 5470 South

G841 North

UP 2678 East

UP 2678 East hurries by with an assortment of stacks east of Otis, IA on the Clinton Sub.

UP 8733 West

UP 8733 West passes by the bridge construction east of Bertram, Iowa on the Clinton Sub.