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Following Iowa's E/W Mains Bayard Sub, IAIS Detour and UP at Woodbine |
We
found that crossing gates have been added to Woodbine xing since the last time
we visited, as a 1X1 DPU manifest snakes around the curve on the side of the
hill.
MCBDM detours on the IAIS eastbound toward Des Moines. The Bluffs has been
running the train between 8000-10,000 feet in length lately.
The Bayard local trundles across the Milwaukee's bridge over the Great Western
in Manning, Iowa
After
all these years, all grade crossings in Manning are still separated, so the
trains quietly pass through unnoticed, except for one on the far west end of
town by the ethanol plant.
BNSF still runs the Bayard local with a caboose, which always sparks memories of
an earlier era.
From inside the Council Bluffs dept, the IAIS switcher meets the MCBDM detour.
About
twenty miles east of Council Bluffs, MCBDM detours eastbound on the IAIS.
