North Job at Manly
Manly, Iowa is the far north end of the Iowa Northern Railroad, and home to one of their yards and a number of customers for the railroad. On this particular Tuesday a quad pack of GP38s (all originally L&N engines that spend time on the Seaboard Cost Line and CSX before coming to Iowa) are tied down on the on the loop track waiting for a crew as the sun sinks low in the late afternoon sky. The yard crew has built the train with IANR 3808 ready to lead the way, and the "North Job" crew is cabbing up to get it, I believe from the crew base at Greene. It would be around sunset before the crew reached the train and then the dispatcher would instruct them to wait for a set of intermodal cars that a UP train was supposed to be delivering to Manly about 1700.
North Job at Manly
Manly, Iowa is the far north end of the Iowa Northern Railroad, and home to one of their yards and a number of customers for the railroad. On this particular Tuesday a quad pack of GP38s (all originally L&N engines that spend time on the Seaboard Cost Line and CSX before coming to Iowa) are tied down on the on the loop track waiting for a crew as the sun sinks low in the late afternoon sky. The yard crew has built the train with IANR 3808 ready to lead the way, and the "North Job" crew is cabbing up to get it, I believe from the crew base at Greene. It would be around sunset before the crew reached the train and then the dispatcher would instruct them to wait for a set of intermodal cars that a UP train was supposed to be delivering to Manly about 1700.