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5/2/2025
 
 
 
 
 
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IAIS 500
Title:  IAIS 500
Description:  Iowa Interstate 500 gets ready to set out some cars. This looks like branch line railroading.
Photo Date:  8/10/2012  Upload Date: 8/10/2012 11:30:53 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Jim Ford
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  IAIS 500(ES44AC)
Views:  232   Comments: 2
IAIS 501
Title:  IAIS 501
Description:  501 pulls north on former CRI&P tracks
Photo Date:  2/25/2013  Upload Date: 2/26/2013 11:22:26 AM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Jim Ford
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  IAIS 501(ES44AC)
Views:  125   Comments: 0
IAIS 501
Title:  IAIS 501
Description:  Iowa Interstate 501 shoves a cut of tubs up the old Rock Island connector.
Photo Date:  2/25/2013  Upload Date: 2/26/2013 11:17:58 AM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Jim Ford
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  IAIS 501(ES44AC)
Views:  151   Comments: 1
IAIS 502
Title:  IAIS 502
Description:  Running as Z037, Iowa Interstate 502 and 510 creep down the old Rock Island connector.
Photo Date:  4/23/2016  Upload Date: 4/26/2016 10:26:15 AM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Jim Ford
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  IAIS 502(ES44AC) IAIS 510(ES44AC)
Views:  197   Comments: 2
IAIS 507
Title:  IAIS 507
Description:  An Iowa Interstate mixer heads through Blue Island on the IHB. He'll pull north past the junction and then back down on former Rock Island tracks.
Photo Date:  8/19/2012  Upload Date: 8/19/2012 11:49:30 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Jim Ford
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  IAIS 507(ES44AC) IAIS 504(ES44AC)
Views:  224   Comments: 2
IAIS 505
Title:  IAIS 505
Description:  He'll pull up onto tie IHB, then back down on the tracks in front of us into Blue Island yard.
Photo Date:  5/6/2015  Upload Date: 5/17/2015 9:46:28 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Jim Ford
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  IAIS 505(ES44AC)
Views:  142   Comments: 1
IAIS 505
Title:  IAIS 505
Description:  An Iowa Interstate transfer waits on the old Rock Island connection for permission to move north on the Harbor.
Photo Date:  5/6/2015  Upload Date: 5/17/2015 9:46:59 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Jim Ford
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  IAIS 505(ES44AC)
Views:  167   Comments: 3
IAIS 506
Title:  IAIS 506
Description:  Iowa Interstate 506 pulls north on the former Rock Island.
Photo Date:  6/4/2013  Upload Date: 6/5/2013 10:20:08 AM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Jim Ford
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  IAIS 506(ES44AC)
Views:  231   Comments: 1
IAIS 516
Title:  IAIS 516
Description:  My first look at the new Iowa Interstate livery. Doesn't leave any doubt, does it?
Photo Date:  4/4/2015  Upload Date: 4/6/2015 2:49:23 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Jim Ford
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  IAIS 516(ES44AC) IAIS 506(ES44AC)
Views:  683   Comments: 4
IAIS 512
Title:  IAIS 512
Description:  This Iowa Interstate pair will take a transfer from the Harbor Belt.
Photo Date:  4/18/2015  Upload Date: 4/22/2015 12:05:15 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Jim Ford
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  IAIS 512(ES44AC) IAIS 506(ES44AC)
Views:  186   Comments: 2
IAIS 508
Title:  IAIS 508
Description:  A few minutes later he pulls down onto the Rock Island Connector. He'll pull through onto the Harbor, then back through the junction toward Blue Island Yard.
Photo Date:  5/6/2014  Upload Date: 5/7/2014 12:02:04 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Jim Ford
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  IAIS 508(ES44AC)
Views:  138   Comments: 2
IAIS 510
Title:  IAIS 510
Description:  The first leg of the triangle is on the Harbor across the Cal-Sag Channel.
Photo Date:  8/20/2014  Upload Date: 8/20/2014 10:53:40 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Jim Ford
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  IAIS 510(ES44AC) IAIS 513(ES44AC)
Views:  163   Comments: 2
IAIS 513
Title:  IAIS 513
Description:  At long last, Broadway is clear. His rear end is up on the high line by now.
Photo Date:  8/20/2014  Upload Date: 8/20/2014 10:58:33 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Jim Ford
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  IAIS 513(ES44AC) IAIS 510(ES44AC)
Views:  155   Comments: 2
IAIS 513
Title:  IAIS 513
Description:  The third leg takes him into Blue Island Yard. It's been over two hours. He's gone maybe three miles.
Photo Date:  8/20/2014  Upload Date: 8/20/2014 10:59:05 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Jim Ford
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  IAIS 513(ES44AC) IAIS 510(ES44AC)
Views:  150   Comments: 2
IAIS 5i3
Title:  IAIS 5i3
Description:  The Rock Island heritage unit leads a transfer run under the former Rock Island.
Photo Date:  8/20/2014  Upload Date: 8/20/2014 10:53:06 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Jim Ford
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  IAIS 513(ES44AC) IAIS 510(ES44AC)
Views:  161   Comments: 3
IAIS 513
Title:  IAIS 513
Description:  Iowa Interstate's Rock Island heritage unit stopped by.
Photo Date:  4/22/2013  Upload Date: 4/28/2013 9:17:01 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Jim Ford
Categories:  Roster,Track
Locomotives:  IAIS 513(ES44AC)
Views:  184   Comments: 0
IAIS 513
Title:  IAIS 513
Description:  The Rock Island heritage unit rests out of the way.
Photo Date:  6/4/2013  Upload Date: 6/5/2013 10:19:23 AM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Jim Ford
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  IAIS 513(ES44AC)
Views:  278   Comments: 3
IAIS 515
Title:  IAIS 515
Description:  Z024 pulls out of the Old Yard and heads north on the Harbor Belt. He'll end up crossing over himself on the ex-Rock Island.
Photo Date:  5/18/2017  Upload Date: 5/22/2017 9:00:58 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Jim Ford
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  IAIS 515(ES44AC)
Views:  199   Comments: 3
IAIS 515
Title:  IAIS 515
Description:  Here's his head end shoving back.
Photo Date:  5/18/2017  Upload Date: 5/22/2017 9:01:45 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Jim Ford
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  IAIS 515(ES44AC)
Views:  144   Comments: 1
IAIS 515
Title:  IAIS 515
Description:  Now he's ready to finish shoving back up onto the Rock. I assume they want him headed this way for 515's next assignment.
Photo Date:  5/18/2017  Upload Date: 5/22/2017 9:03:20 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Jim Ford
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  IAIS 515(ES44AC)
Views:  147   Comments: 1
IAIS 515
Title:  IAIS 515
Description:  Nope. He's gone around the balloon track and come out facing the other way. The new guy is here to handle the switch for the turn-around move.
Photo Date:  5/18/2017  Upload Date: 5/22/2017 9:04:02 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Jim Ford
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  IAIS 515(ES44AC)
Views:  149   Comments: 3
IAIS 515
Title:  IAIS 515
Description:  And here he is, an hour after he first came by us, on the third leg of the triangle and headed for Blue Island Yard. Somewhere back there, his conductor is still clinging to the last tank car.
Photo Date:  5/18/2017  Upload Date: 5/22/2017 9:36:39 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Jim Ford
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  IAIS 515(ES44AC)
Views:  175   Comments: 3
CREX 1212
Title:  CREX 1212
Description:  Forty minutes he rolls through Peiguss Yard in East Chicago. That's a spiffy engine.
Photo Date:  3/15/2014  Upload Date: 3/16/2014 10:37:33 PM
Location:  East Chicago, IN
Author:  Jim Ford
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CREX 1212(ES44AC)
Views:  427   Comments: 7
CREX 1212
Title:  CREX 1212
Description:  Q267 waits on Track 2. He's got empty racks for a Honda plant in Ohio.
Photo Date:  3/15/2014  Upload Date: 3/16/2014 10:38:02 PM
Location:  Barr Yard, IL
Author:  Jim Ford
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CREX 1212(ES44AC)
Views:  411   Comments: 2
CREX 1214
Title:  CREX 1214
Description:  Either he wasn't calling signals or I wasn't listening.
Photo Date:  4/28/2015  Upload Date: 5/6/2015 8:37:07 PM
Location:  Union Mills, IN
Author:  Jim Ford
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CREX 1214(ES44AC) BNSF 9861(SD70MAC)
Views:  357   Comments: 5
CREX 1317
Title:  CREX 1317
Description:  The lead car is new here.
Photo Date:  11/21/2017  Upload Date: 11/23/2017 6:27:17 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Jim Ford
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CREX 1317(ES44AC) BNSF 6779(ES44C4)
Views:  309   Comments: 2
CP 9833
Title:  CP 9833
Description:  Home road power in second lace.
Photo Date:  5/1/2015  Upload Date: 5/4/2015 6:24:14 PM
Location:  Green Oaks, IL
Author:  Jim Ford
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CP 9833(AC44CW) CEFX 1006(AC44CW) CREX 1330(ES44AC) NS 9603(C44-9W)
Views:  682   Comments: 3
CREX 1330
Title:  CREX 1330
Description:  The southbound finally gets his signal.
Photo Date:  5/1/2015  Upload Date: 5/4/2015 6:24:56 PM
Location:  Green Oaks, IL
Author:  Jim Ford
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CREX 1330(ES44AC) NS 9603(C44-9W)
Views:  474   Comments: 4
CREX 1330
Title:  CREX 1330
Description:  A southbound mixer pulls down the northbound passing track to wait for hotter traffic.
Photo Date:  5/1/2015  Upload Date: 5/4/2015 6:25:32 PM
Location:  Green Oaks, IL
Author:  Jim Ford
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CREX 1330(ES44AC) NS 9603(C44-9W)
Views:  423   Comments: 2
NS 9603
Title:  NS 9603
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/1/2015  Upload Date: 5/4/2015 6:27:38 PM
Location:  Green Oaks, IL
Author:  Jim Ford
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 9603(C44-9W) CREX 1330(ES44AC)
Views:  477   Comments: 0
CREX 1434
Title:  CREX 1434
Description:  K055 has nifty foreign power.
Photo Date:  10/1/2014  Upload Date: 10/2/2014 10:46:53 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Jim Ford
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CREX 1434(ES44AC) BNSF 5946(ES44AC)
Views:  483   Comments: 4
CN 2025
Title:  CN 2025
Description:  And two more GE's makes five.
Photo Date:  6/9/2015  Upload Date: 6/11/2015 10:47:14 AM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Jim Ford
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CN 2025(C40-8) CN 2858(ES44AC) CN 2800(ES44AC) CN 2837(ES44AC) IC 2701(C44-9W)
Views:  1057   Comments: 1
CN 2858
Title:  CN 2858
Description:  Triplets, two pulling and one riding.
Photo Date:  6/9/2015  Upload Date: 6/11/2015 10:48:20 AM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Jim Ford
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CN 2858(ES44AC) CN 2800(ES44AC) CN 2837(ES44AC)
Views:  694   Comments: 1
CN 2800
Title:  CN 2800
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/22/2015  Upload Date: 9/23/2015 8:39:45 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Jim Ford
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  CN 5749(SD75I) CN 2800(ES44AC)
Views:  333   Comments: 2
CN 2803
Title:  CN 2803
Description:  Single-handed on a southbound stacker.
Photo Date:  10/2/2017  Upload Date: 10/3/2017 9:26:48 PM
Location:  Mundelein, IL
Author:  Jim Ford
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CN 2803(ES44AC)
Views:  395   Comments: 3
CN 2803
Title:  CN 2803
Description:  He'll swing off to the right onto the ex-EJ&E bypass around Chicago.
Photo Date:  10/2/2017  Upload Date: 10/3/2017 9:27:43 PM
Location:  Mundelein, IL
Author:  Jim Ford
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CN 2803(ES44AC)
Views:  341   Comments: 1
CN 2805
Title:  CN 2805
Description:  Past the old Grand Trunk crossing tower and onto the Elsdon Sub.
Photo Date:  4/18/2015  Upload Date: 4/22/2015 12:04:41 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Jim Ford
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CN 2805(ES44AC) CN 2861(ES44AC)
Views:  587   Comments: 1
CN 2861
Title:  CN 2861
Description:  This may have been Z742, which is frequently headed by twins.
Photo Date:  4/18/2015  Upload Date: 4/22/2015 12:04:03 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Jim Ford
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CN 2861(ES44AC) CN 2805(ES44AC)
Views:  570   Comments: 2
CN 2915
Title:  CN 2915
Description:  Triplets!
Photo Date:  3/12/2015  Upload Date: 3/20/2015 3:12:00 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Jim Ford
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CN 2915(ES44AC) CN 2807(ES44AC) CN 2878(ES44AC)
Views:  857   Comments: 4
CN 2915
Title:  CN 2915
Description:  Past the abandoned GTW crossing tower
Photo Date:  3/12/2015  Upload Date: 3/20/2015 3:12:44 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Jim Ford
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CN 2915(ES44AC) CN 2807(ES44AC) CN 2878(ES44AC)
Views:  707   Comments: 0
CN 2810
Title:  CN 2810
Description:  A little morning fog lingers as a mixer, perhaps Z742, comes down the Elsdon Sub.
Photo Date:  5/6/2015  Upload Date: 5/11/2015 1:29:30 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Jim Ford
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  CN 2810(ES44AC) CN 2883(ES44AC)
Views:  540   Comments: 3
CN 2883
Title:  CN 2883
Description:  CN seems to keep its engines clean.
Photo Date:  5/6/2015  Upload Date: 5/11/2015 1:30:02 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Jim Ford
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CN 2883(ES44AC) CN 2810(ES44AC)
Views:  479   Comments: 3
CN 5500
Title:  CN 5500
Description:  Interesting consist.
Photo Date:  9/9/2015  Upload Date: 9/11/2015 1:56:25 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Jim Ford
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CN 5500(SD60F) CN 2811(ES44AC) CN 3003(ET44AC) CN 2864(ES44AC)
Views:  814   Comments: 1
CN 2821
Title:  CN 2821
Description:  Down the Elsden Sub.
Photo Date:  12/6/2016  Upload Date: 12/10/2016 10:32:20 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Jim Ford
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CN 2821(ES44AC) CN 2861(ES44AC)
Views:  509   Comments: 1
CN 2821
Title:  CN 2821
Description:  The DPU pounds the diamond.
Photo Date:  2/28/2018  Upload Date: 3/9/2018 8:58:50 PM
Location:  Spaulding, IL
Author:  Jim Ford
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CN 2821(ES44AC)
Views:  299   Comments: 2
CN 2821
Title:  CN 2821
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/28/2018  Upload Date: 3/9/2018 8:59:44 PM
Location:  Spaulding, IL
Author:  Jim Ford
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CN 2821(ES44AC)
Views:  342   Comments: 1
CN 2828
Title:  CN 2828
Description:  I got caught a little out of position by this guy, who was flying with a solid train of center-beam flats.
Photo Date:  5/3/2018  Upload Date: 5/4/2018 8:58:35 PM
Location:  Lake Zurich, IL
Author:  Jim Ford
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CN 2828(ES44AC)
Views:  353   Comments: 1
CN 2623
Title:  CN 2623
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/9/2017  Upload Date: 11/16/2017 6:29:53 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Jim Ford
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CN 2623(C44-9W) CN 2833(ES44AC) CN 3037(ET44AC)
Views:  534   Comments: 1


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