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IAIS/Rock Island ES44AC right
Iowa Interstate's Rock Island heritage ES44AC. It started out very similar to my KCS ES44AC, but one advantage of building the same thing over and over is that you usually refine the design with each successive build and that's what happened here. I wound up rebuilding parts of my KCS because I came up with more elegant solutions in places on the Rock Island. I really like the ES series and this is probably one of the best paint schemes yet. All the painful GE vents are there, but I've done them enough that this time it's a pretty solid build all around. The trucks are slightly different from the KCS because IAIS ordered theirs with radial trucks.
IAIS/Rock Island ES44AC right
Iowa Interstate's Rock Island heritage ES44AC. It started out very similar to my KCS ES44AC, but one advantage of building the same thing over and over is that you usually refine the design with each successive build and that's what happened here. I wound up rebuilding parts of my KCS because I came up with more elegant solutions in places on the Rock Island. I really like the ES series and this is probably one of the best paint schemes yet. All the painful GE vents are there, but I've done them enough that this time it's a pretty solid build all around. The trucks are slightly different from the KCS because IAIS ordered theirs with radial trucks.