Year: 2004

Welcome to www.iaisrailfans.org, the new home of the Unofficial Iowa Interstate site. Over the past two months, the site has now undergone its fourth major redesign in its nearly 9 nears of existance, and gotten its own domain in the process. Mostly it was just an exercise in rearranging things and bringing formatting up to…

LLPX 2805 and LLPX 2807, the last of the quartet of SD38-2s to be delivered, were trailing (but providing power) on Saturday, 28-Aug-2004’s BICB. Also on the train were the other two SD38-2s and four other 4 axle motors. IAIS 706, the first of the new 700s placed in service, is at Iowa City and…

As as been somewhat unofficial now for several months, the Ski Train, along with two of its F40s, will be leased to Iowa Interstate for operating a shuttle between parking in Coralville and Kinnick Stadium. This will allow University of Iowa football fans to park for free in Coralville and be shuttled to the game…

The second leased SD38 for the ICCR/CRIC jobs is now on the railroad. It’s apparently on NTBI today (16-Aug-2004) to be set out at the Iowa City shops. Also, the 700s will apparently be sent out to the various crew terminals for training on the new hot start feature they’re equipped with, and after that…

After five days back home, there’s so much updating to do… LLPX 2802, the first of the four SD38s, is now on the property and regularly working the ICCR/CRIC trains. 706 and 718, the first two new GP38s, have also arrived, delivered by the IC&E on 10-Aug-2004 and then promptly carried west (dead-in-tow) to Council…

There was just a report on the IAIS list that LLPX 2806 is headed north to WSOR’s Horicon, WI, shops to be repainted… supposedly to IAIS colors! This would be an incredible turn of events of it pans out as true. The only question is why 2802, now on IAIS and definitely not in IAIS…

Thanks to David Colstrom, we have pictures of the first of the new 700s to emerge from Mid-American Car in KC – GP38 706. They’re all 1024×768 and about 125kb, just as a warning for those of you on slow lines. Photo #1, Photo #2, Photo #3, Photo #4. I’d like to start building an…

Just a note that the new GP38s are starting to be delivered, as 706 was spotted outside Mid-America in KC, and there’s another one in the paint booth. The really interesting thing is that they’re coming with a solid yellow end on the front and a striped end on the back. The solid yellow nose…

The announcement has been made that IAIS will be acquiring 20ish new (at least to them) GP38s to replace the aging first generation fleet. The units, to be reportedly numbered in the 700 series, will be in IAIS paint and should start showing up in late May / early June. The 400s will all be…

While it’s not strictly IAIS site news, I’ve posted my photos and trip report from my trip back to Davenport over the holidays. They can be found over at DRGW.Net by following either this link to the introduction or this link to the trip report itself. Enjoy! – NDH