Noah Bolte
On The Old Milwaukee Road
CN 8835 leads CN L52691-07 (Bryant Yard, Waterloo, IA - Cedar Rapids, IA turn) northbound (directionally eastbound) across the old Milwaukee Road line from Marion to Rutledge, now owned by CRANDIC. Here's a picture of this same location from ~7 decades ago: youtu.be/Q3rkZC5MrPI?t=4832
Less than a year ago, this train would've been powered by IANR locomotives, but alas, that is no more. Here we see CN exercising their newly acquired trackage rights across the CIC's property down to ADM and the 900 Yards.
With Westrock closing their Cedar Rapids location down (that was the last remaining industry on the Chicago-Omaha MILW route), I guess CN buying out the IANR maintained their position of running on former MILW trackage in the Cedar Rapids area, didn't it?
Taken on the CRANDIC zone 4(??) or something like that on 9/7/25.
On The Old Milwaukee Road
CN 8835 leads CN L52691-07 (Bryant Yard, Waterloo, IA - Cedar Rapids, IA turn) northbound (directionally eastbound) across the old Milwaukee Road line from Marion to Rutledge, now owned by CRANDIC. Here's a picture of this same location from ~7 decades ago: youtu.be/Q3rkZC5MrPI?t=4832
Less than a year ago, this train would've been powered by IANR locomotives, but alas, that is no more. Here we see CN exercising their newly acquired trackage rights across the CIC's property down to ADM and the 900 Yards.
With Westrock closing their Cedar Rapids location down (that was the last remaining industry on the Chicago-Omaha MILW route), I guess CN buying out the IANR maintained their position of running on former MILW trackage in the Cedar Rapids area, didn't it?
Taken on the CRANDIC zone 4(??) or something like that on 9/7/25.