Iowa Interstate’s East End: A Mighty Fine Line
Bettendorf
IAIS (CRIP)
Davenport Moline
ROCK ISLAND
Milan RADIO FREQUENCIES
Freq. AAR Description 161.220 74 IAIS Road 160.305 22 IAIS Yard 161.340 82 Metra Rock Island District 160.290 12 CSXT New Rock Sub Road 160.230 08 CSXT New Rock Sub Disp. 160.935 55 Chicago Rail Link 160.980 58 IHB West Disp. 161.565 97 IHB Blue Island Hump YM 160.470 24 Tazewell & Peoria Road 160.500 26 CRANDIC Yard Manager 452.9375 — Locotrol DPU 457.9375 — EOT Device (FRED)
Goodrich Putnam
Henry Sparland Ross Mossville Sankoty PEORIA Chillicothe OMAHA
AMTK - Amtrak ATSF - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe BNSF - BNSF Railway C&A - Chicago & Alton CBQ - Chicago, Burlington & Quincy CIC - Cedard Rapids & Iowa City CN - Canadian National CNW - Chicago & NorthWestern CP - Canadian Pacific CRIP - Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific CSXT - CSX Transportation
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Bureau IOW A Des Moines Peoria
GTW - Grand Trunk Western EJE - Elgin, Joliet & Eastern ICE - Iowa, Chicago & Eastern IHB - Indiana Harbor Belt METX - Metra MILW - Milwaukee Road RIS - Rock Island Southern TZPR- Tazewell & Peoria UP - Union Pacific
ILLINOIS
CHICAGO Blue Island
Colona Illustration by Otto M. Vondrak
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10 MILES 20 30 JOLIET CN (EJE)
CHICAGO
BLUE ISLAND
THEN AND NOW: During the summer of 1977, an extra Rock Island manifest from Peoria is cruising east through Depue, Ill. Back then there were 20-25 trains a day through this town within a 24-hour period. PHOTO BY MARK LLANUZA Thirty-two years later, Iowa Interstate’s train BUSW passes the re- mains of the depot in Depue, Ill. The train is headed to Utica to interchange with the CSX, and to work a cement plant interchange in LaSalle, Ill. RIGHT: Iowa Interstate 708 is in charge of a CRPE with 80 empty coal hoppers bound for the Tazewell & Peoria connection in Peoria, passing the beautifully restored Rock Island depot in Chillicothe, Ill., on Nov. 24, 2006.
across this old Rock Island main line. IAIS operates two regularly scheduled road trains a day, one each way out of their home terminals: Blue Island to Council Bluffs, and Council Bluffs to Blue Island, symboled BICB and CBBI respectively (also nicknamed the East and West trains). In addition to these scheduled trains,
there is the Crandic Turn that makes a round trip with interchange traffic from the IAIS at Iowa City to the CIC at its Smith Dowes Yard in Fairfax. This turn is symboled ICCR and CRIC
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for east and westbound movements. Once this traffic arrives in Iowa City from Cedar Rapids, another job will come on duty in Iowa City to operate a turn to Silvis Yard in Illinois, symboled ICSI and SIIC. Within the last year, the Iowa Inter-
state has changed their operations in western Illinois, rebuilding a portion of
the former Rock Island Silvis Yard, and transferring all major yard duties there, leaving Rock Island yard as a staging and interchange point with BNSF Railway and Canadian Pacific, along with an overnight local crew that works the small Milan Branch. In addition to these scheduled main line trains, there are a handful of jobs
Minooka
East Morris Morris
Stockdale Seneca
Marseilles Ottawa Utica LaSalle Peru
Depue Howe
IAIS (CRIP)
IOWA CITY Midway
West Liberty Downey
Atalissa Moscow Wilton Durn
Walcott Stockton
Silvis
Geneseo
Atkinson Anawan
Mineral Sheffield Wyanet Tiskilwa
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