This afternoon's IAIS with NS power hauling Grain empties north.





Today was a good day I actually  caught some action on the IAIS line north of Peoria for a change instead of either seeing nothing or their trucks inspecting the tracks.  It's been a good number of years since I even seen a train north of Peoria on that line.  I stayed with a co worker for the night one night back in 2002 or 2003 up by Mossville or Rome ( I forget what the town was we took route 6 to get there) and  we seen a train pass by acrossed the street.  I was testing my camera filming a UP train at the chilli sub in Chillicothe and hear chatter of NS power over the scanner so I start heading south figuring there might be an IAIS train somewhere.  Yup there was it had NS power hauling grain empties by what i was told and the destination is Des Moines, Iowa.  I took pictures around Mossville and Rome then filmed it up at Chillicothe not far from the old Rock Island depot.  Tommorrow a friend and I are going up to the Quad cities to try our luck with IAIS up there.  Hopefully we catch one of their actual locomotives with their name on it.  I plan on taking 29 up then  catching I-80 from around Princeton then heading west to Route 6 then up 84  then head west into Moline.  Hopefully it's a satisfying day!

 I also caught a UP (2)  and BNSF train today.  I didn't see any KJRY locomotives in the area at all so they might have been out west.  It was a beautiful day and that crap ( snow) is gradually melting.  

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  1. David P. JordanMarch 16, 2017 at 8:29 PM

    You new camera is great!

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  2. David P. JordanMarch 16, 2017 at 8:38 PM

    The Iowa Interstate Railroad acts as haulage agent for Norfolk Southern grain trains between Des Moines and Peoria. The IAIS gets a flat per car rate, so no need to for Norfolk Southern to negotiation a rate division ever time a new contract is signed between shipper, railroad and consignee. Thus, NS can quote single-line service ("NS-direct" on the waybill) from Des Moines, where NS performs its own switching.

    Trains are loaded at Heartland Cooperative's 18th Street elevator for southeast points. Among them, Tate & Lyle's wet corn mill at Loudon, Tennessee (STLX- and/or FURX-marked cars) and Ingredion's wet corn mill at Winston-Salem, North Carolina (CCLX-marked cars). At least one feed mill in south Georgia (NS-marked cars) is a frequent destination, though there are likely others of this type.

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  3. Traingirl36March 16, 2017 at 8:39 PM

    Thanks. I'm loving it so far. :)

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  4. Traingirl36March 16, 2017 at 8:41 PM

    How often do these grain trains run down here or vise versa run empties up?

    I'm hoping to see more IAIS tommorrow but also getting curious on the CP RR over on the Davenport side. Not sure how active either are in these areas will find out I suppose tommorrow with Windle.

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    1. David P. JordanMarch 20, 2017 at 6:00 PM

      IAIS handles empty NS grain trains out of Peoria whenever they show up, which can vary a lot. Up to three a week sometimes. Turnaround can take five days for the loaded train to get back to NS at East Peoria.

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  5. Traingirl36March 20, 2017 at 10:18 PM

    So the days just vary not anything predictable in the way of time frame?

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