Are the dead engines at Silvis going anywhere from now until the end of this summer?
What dead engines would those be?
The NRE company rebuilds them here.
Spoky, did you stop on the route 5 (aka John Deere Road) bridge to take that photo? I drove by that place (again) over easter weekend, and every time I do I wonder how I can get a good shot of it. Yours is the only shot I’ve ever seen.
Bergie
I believe it was from the bridge. Traffic was very light, so I stood in back of the pickup on a stool. Then I looped around to a dirt road and snapped this.
The UP units in the middle of the front row look like SD-50’s or SD-60’s based on the blower duct configuration and the height of the radiator fan inlets.
Its kind of amazing to see power that is so seemingly new, in a retired / dead line. I know they’re not really that new anymore, but it seems they were introduced when I was in college and geez, that doesn’t seem that long ago, but I guess 20 yrs can get away from you pretty quickly. Makes a guy feel pretty old to see something like that be introduced, live out its life and retire, inside of what seems like the blink of an eye… and yet a lot of SD-40-2’s and even some venerable old SD-45’s (built the year I was born) still soldier on. Maybe they did do it better back then.
Judging from the paint schemes, does it look like some of those have been there a while? Or, has someone been running a locomotive in orange & white ICG paint recently?
The pic is dated april 2004. The few times I get up that way, I don’t see any movement.
I recently read, and now can’t recall where ([:I]), that the railroad that used to have it’s yard in Rock Island (Iowa Interstate, or CCI/something(?) ) was going to move it’s main yard to Silvis, to the old Rock Island yard, and share track space with the locomotives shown.