Year: 2007

Another IAIS SD38-2 has arrived via the IC&E – IAIS 156. Having gone through some maintenance, upgrades, and repainting at Mid-America Car in Kansas City, MO, 156 should be interchanged to the Iowa Interstate at Davenport either today or tomorrow. 157, the next SD38-2 bound for IAIS, is still reportedly at MAC in Kansas City….

In the last two months, the Iowa Interstate roster has undergone yet more changes. IAIS 250, the road’s only true switch engine, has been sold to Patriot Renewable Fuels in Annawan, IL. It’ll serve as the plant switcher for this new ethanol plant, and won’t be far from home rails, as Iowa Interstate provides the…

After being hosted from a computer at my house (or in my dorm room, or in the corner of an ISU lab) for the last ten years, the Unofficial Iowa Interstate site has finally moved to a real web hosting firm. The result should be a faster, more stable site with plenty of room to…

IAIS received its newest addition to the motive power fleet last week when the Iowa, Chicago & Eastern delivered slug 650 to the Davenport interchange. Slugs are units with no diesel engine or generator of their own, only traction motors and a lot of weight. They’re paired with another unit for power. This allows the…

For those of you on the west end, the two Chinese QJ-class 2-10-2s are moving your way under power. They were steamed up yesterday, and after leaving Newton in the late afternoon, made it as far as Booneville. As of 0745h Saturday morning, they were still in Booneville. While no one has provided official details…