Cotter South
CP 261 proceeds through Cotter South anticipating a meet with its westbound counterpart 260 which is switching Letts up the road. This portion of the Ottumwa Sub between Washington and Muscatine is part of a 33-mile stretch of former Rock Island trackage that the Milwaukee Road in 1982 to eliminate a section of its own mainline to Kansas City. The searchlights at Cotter South are, in fact, Rock Island signals.
Cotter South
CP 261 proceeds through Cotter South anticipating a meet with its westbound counterpart 260 which is switching Letts up the road. This portion of the Ottumwa Sub between Washington and Muscatine is part of a 33-mile stretch of former Rock Island trackage that the Milwaukee Road in 1982 to eliminate a section of its own mainline to Kansas City. The searchlights at Cotter South are, in fact, Rock Island signals.