Extras from This Spring:
Plus, Grainapalooza 2005 Tour

cnw8052-wellno.jpg     The missing piece on everybody's favorite "last" SD60 could be found
                       on this UP Geep in Counciltucky.... Where is the 8052 nowadays anyway?

up6708.jpg             I guess no logo is better than a UP logo... A patched CNW at CB.

up8328.jpg             Three of a kind... and ACEs as well!!  
up8555.jpg             On mother's day, EMD displays a face only a mother could love...
easton-meet.jpg        Detours are making Easton Blvd a busy place!!
             
bn9260.jpg             Only slightly "bastardized" with a little BNSF lettering, this green
                       machine could be found at Ft. Dodge.           
cic102.jpg             And how about a "pirated" Geep to go with it?  At Vincent, this former
                       CRANDIC (Cedar Rapids/Iowa City) Geep has a wooden window, complete
                       with an air conditioner!!  Is that FRA compliant?!
dows-geeps.jpg         One of my lucky catches on the "Grain Tour" was this pair of Geeps, who
                       we saw cut away from GCCLDW as we arrived in Dows.  Just minutes later,
                       the light power heads toward Clarion.
grove-geeps.jpg        Chicago may be short on power, but at least we keep an important terminal
                       like Eagle Grove well stocked!!
gp9.jpg                This Odebolt crawler is rumored to be ex-CNW.....
ic6128.jpg             IC power at Boone... and IC dead trains!!!

up1098.jpg             Only in Iowa can you find UP alcos blasting through still unprotected
                       crossings in Boone. Looks like BSV is going to move freight today.
                       You could almost swear I tried to photograph that pole!
up2047.jpg             Another train in grain land, this one a local at Moorland.
up2047b.jpg            Ever since Crawford got that job with the UP, our track hasn't been
                       the same............ 
up2052.jpg             Here, you can take a left towards Kanawha or a right towards Dows
up4910.jpg             Another train found on the grain tour, this one southbound on the Tara
                       Sub!  May 10,2005 photo south of Gowrie

stormsabrewin.jpg      On the way back to Omaha from my tour of Grain Country, the skies opened
                       up.  This was supposed to be an elapsed exposure, but I clicked a little
                       prematurely, and instead of a "train blur," you got a couple of blurry
                       engines instead.  Either way, the skies were looking dark, that was the point.
              
             
up6900.jpg             More leftovers... seems UP decided to make railroad history and run
                       the rarest consist of the year without announcing this to anybody who
                       would actually care:  Two DD40's on the same train!!  Well, I missed, 
                       as did 99.9% of everybody, but here's a shot of 6900 at the fuel rack.        
up6936.jpg             6936 was also at the Counciltucky fuel rack.  
2DDs.jpg               Here's a lame attempt to get them in the same frame.  Thanks, UP!!