A long, long, long, detour
The flood of 1999 prove to be hard on the IMRL. IPSCO was IMRL biggest customer, so when they screamed for cars, IMRL came up with one interesting detour train. The IMRL madeup a detour of around 70-80 IPSCO steel cars (loads/empties) in the Savanna/Davis Jct area. They then ran this train the LONG way to Davenport due to flooding. This train ran via IMRL Davis Jct, to CN Rockford, CEDR at Waterloo, back to IMRL at Charles City, to UP at Mason City, to IAIS at Des Moines, back to IMRL at Davenport. Here the train is southbound on the UP's Spineline north of Iowa Falls, IA. Plus this train got helpers at Charles City since the train had to change directions due to the transfer track between the Cedar River and the IMRL. Not often seen westbound helpers on the Mason City Sub, I got the honors to push this train that night.
A long, long, long, detour
The flood of 1999 prove to be hard on the IMRL. IPSCO was IMRL biggest customer, so when they screamed for cars, IMRL came up with one interesting detour train. The IMRL madeup a detour of around 70-80 IPSCO steel cars (loads/empties) in the Savanna/Davis Jct area. They then ran this train the LONG way to Davenport due to flooding. This train ran via IMRL Davis Jct, to CN Rockford, CEDR at Waterloo, back to IMRL at Charles City, to UP at Mason City, to IAIS at Des Moines, back to IMRL at Davenport. Here the train is southbound on the UP's Spineline north of Iowa Falls, IA. Plus this train got helpers at Charles City since the train had to change directions due to the transfer track between the Cedar River and the IMRL. Not often seen westbound helpers on the Mason City Sub, I got the honors to push this train that night.