Joe A. has posted that IAIS has signed a ten year lease withn an option to buy for the LLPX SD38-2 units that run the Rock Island-Iowa City-Cedar Rapids trains. One by one, they’ll be sent down to Mid-America Car in Kansas City to receive SmartStart units (same as the new 700s) and to be repainted into Iowa Interstate colors. It sure will be nice to see IAIS black on big six axle power again.
– NDH