Art, Have you given any thought to also heading up to Mason City to see the Iowa Traction, the last freight hauling interurban, in operation?...
Sorry, yes you are correct in that the UP wanted to scrap the old Kate Shelley bridge.
A couple of additional items: 1) When the city of Madrid, IA needed to replace an overpass in their town over the former MILW, the UP insisted...
Given what I know, let me correct a few items here: 1) The old steel MILW trestle was actually removed in the early 1970's and replaced with the...
FYI - The next Des MoiNTrak meeting will be at 7:15 PM on Thursday, March 14 at the Urbandale Public Library. The Library is located on 86th a...
ANOTHER ITEM FROM AN EARLIER POST HERE: For as long as I can remember the Kate Shelley Division meet has been the first weekend of November at...
No specific area/location for the modules or the trains that are run. Some members have NTrak, some TTrak, some have both and some have neither...
Here's the club website URL....looks like I will need to talk with the webmaster so that it shows up in the search engines. Right now we are...
Sorry that I didn't see this sooner....there are quite a few N Scalers in Central Iowa including myself (sans layout at current thanks to a lack...
ICG!!!! WOO HOO!!!! I will be picking up all 3 numbers and praying for "Death Star" and Gray/Orange GP38s and GP40s in the future!!! THANK YOU...
Being from Iowa myself there are plenty of great places to model on a 4X8; however, if it were me I would model the Fort Madison riverfront with...
WOO HOO! Hallet hoppers! Saw those in the 1970-1980s on the RI and CNW here in Iowa! Need about 6 more numbers though, but I will pick up these...
Well you're also forgetting that at least one SP SD40M-2 (in an SDP45 body) made it to UP colors as the 2771 (and possibly another numbers). I...
Personally I would like to see: 1) A multi-pack of brown trailer train 89'4" flat cars to handle all of the trailers on the market. 2) A...
Last I knew he was working full time at a job with a commute of an hour+ each way...not sure if that is still the case.
Here's a Google Maps shot of GLOBAL I - longer tracks around the container storage.
Answers: 1. Are there any container yards that exist without rail facilities...i.e. for storage? - YES - all over the place - in larger cities...
I've got the issue somewhere in my collection and will look for it. I believe that it is either a December or January issue, but can't say for...
I used to travel for business and would often make purchases at local shops because I never knew if I would be back, and when I was, if the store...
How about an unnumbered version for those of us who model the 21st Century Rock Island that exists in an alternate timeline due to the fact that...
