IAIS gave me a great day-belated birthday gift with a shuttle move of the Silvis-bound donation special a couple years ago. It was a terribly frustrating chase with the most diverse weather conditions I’ve faced in 6 hours in Iowa and a bunch of shit traffic. Compounding the difficulty was the general size and makeup of the consist, but it looked pretty neat at the famed Oxford bend not far west of Iowa City.

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Chicago & Illinois Midland SD20 No. 80 and RS1325 No. 31 rest between runs at Springfield, IL on Sept. 9, 1996.

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DL #3602 leads PO75 back into town at Ridge Row.

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One of Shamrock Coal Company's two Oneida & Western Railroad coal sets curves through Marietta, GA in May of 1986 behind SD40-2 #9952. The coal company bought this equipment, including locomotives and cabooses, in order to get a better freight rate from L&N.

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ARR 4318 arrives Anchorage with something new for this photographer. Former KCS unit 3909 has been wrapped into ARR colors, kind of, see roster shot for variations. New number is 4130 and is second out in this northbound Seward freight.

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