IAIS 711

When we were nearing Atlantic, we heard the crew talking with the dispatcher about swapping with the crew on the BICB at Atlantic and taking it back to CB.

 

Now, apparently this was a more common sight a few years ago, but nowadays a BICB in daylight is incredibly rare. The icing on the cake though was pulling into town and seeing that they had put a geep leader on the front. Score.

 

The chase back to McClelland was a lot faster paced, as this train wasn't limited to the 18mph the donation train was. With that in mind, we knew we wanted to get him coming across at Hancock, and I decided to put the drone up to get a bit of a different angle. I just about missed the sucker hole on that lead motor as well.

 

Note the farmer on the right side. Thankfully he wasn't there when the UP went through, or otherwise he would have had to put up with the crowd of foamers gathered around his property.

 

Iowa Interstate GP38-2 711 leads the BICB westbound on the Council Bluffs Subdivision outside Hancock, Iowa, November 18, 2022.

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