Bob Sabbe spotted IAIS 721 being interchanged to the IC&E at Nahant Yard in Davenport his morning. Word from Erik Rasmussen via the IAIS List is that it will be going to Albia to be converted to a slug mother. It will then be mated with a slug built from IAIS 481, likely to be numbered IAIS 651. I haven’t heard anything about 481 leaving the property yet, however, for its conversion.
Update (12/15, 2252h): Erik Rasmussen reminded me that, yes, 481 has indeed left the property. In fact it’s been at Albia so long that I’d forgotten entirely. Turns out it left almost a year ago, on 4 Dec 2009. Erik’s photos of it moving dead on CBBI-04 can be found [here].
– NDH