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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Title: |
NS 9603 |
Description: |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Title: |
CN 2800 |
Description: |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Title: |
CN 2821 |
Description: |
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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 |
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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 |
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Title: |
CN 2623 |
Description: |
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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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