The Best of 2023-Watermelon “Crawl”

 Another highlight of 2023 was the movement of the largest Watermelon slice to downtown Muscatine, IA.

The Best of 2023

 The Best of 2023 goes to this video which has garnered 1.4 million views on YouTube.

2023 CPKC Holiday Train

LeClaire, IA

Riverdale, IA

 

Photo Dump October 11-18, 2023

Westbound UP with CSX power at Clarence, IA

Deer eating corn remnants west of Fairfax, IA

Eastbound UP train MCBPR waiting to get into Clinton.

MCBPR at Mt Vernon, IA

The replacements at Cotter South

8 GECX Motors wait to head south for exchange for RELCO at Albia.

 All 8 motors backing into the yard to tie down from CPKC 253-numbered GECX 7001-7008.

260 rolling through Nahant Yard, passing the 8 GECX units.

Four passenger cars waiting to head south on CPKC 260. CP Royal Wentworth

KCS Vera Cruz

KCS San Luis Potosí 

KCS Baton Rouge 

Hapag-Lloyd unit on CPKC 260 at Bettendorf 

New southbound intermediate signal for 5th Street Interlocking. CPKC Davenport Sub.

KCSM 4523 second out….

with CP 7012 leading 261 at Massey.

Power of M338 at Dubuque.

KCSM 4523 at Edmore.

576(left) meeting 261 at Edmore.

CPKC 853 through the valley fog at Massey.

Too much gap at the new 37.0 detector in Massey.

 

iPhone Photo Dump

181-Muscatine 

260-Muscatine 

Intermediated signal for the Washington siding near Ainsworth.

New signals at Cotter

CP 6025

50th Anniversary for Canpotex

Covered hopper

KCS GP38-2

181 at Ainsworth 

181 passing 859 at Letts

CIC 302/202

CP 6025 in Muscatine.