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Viewing Album:  Muscatine - Pearl of the Mississippi
 
By:Zachary DeVore
Dates:8/13/2010 - 8/13/2010
Album Info:Photos taken in Muscatine, Iowa and some taken in Muscatine County, Iowa. Muscatine's first railroad was the Rock Island in the 1850s. Today, I am not sure if any trace of the former Rock Island exists. Later, the Milwaukee Road went through Muscatine on its line from Chicago to Kansas City. There was a Milwaukee Road yard near the Mississippi River. Later, following MILW's bankruptcy, the Soo Line took over this line and later the CP spun this line off to the Iowa Montana Rail Link. Today, this line is run by the Iowa, Chicago & Eastern but is in the process of being repurchased by the Canandian Pacific. There are also some UP run through trains on this line. Also in Muscatine County is the former Rock Island Chicago-Omaha line now run by the Iowa Interstate.
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UP 5976
Title:  UP 5976
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/12/2008  Upload Date: 5/24/2008 9:11:07 AM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
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Locomotives:  UP 5976(AC44CWCTE) UP 6765(AC44CW)
Views:  254   Comments: 0
MAXX 98003
Title:  MAXX 98003
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/12/2008  Upload Date: 5/24/2008 9:11:08 AM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  73   Comments: 0
MAXX 9881
Title:  MAXX 9881
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/12/2008  Upload Date: 5/24/2008 9:11:09 AM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  69   Comments: 1
Empty Hoppers
Title:  Empty Hoppers
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/12/2008  Upload Date: 5/24/2008 9:11:10 AM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
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Views:  51   Comments: 0
CNW 80128
Title:  CNW 80128
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/12/2008  Upload Date: 5/24/2008 8:44:44 AM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  127   Comments: 0
CNW 880211
Title:  CNW 880211
Description:  Given the later appearance of a Marx train, it is interesting that a C&NW hopper shows up given that C&NW was a company with an ESOP (employee stock ownership plan for those who aren't as familiar with business and labor law) since that was one thing that Karl Marx's writings influenced, at least indirectly - the more moderate unions became an acceptable alternative to communism which the railroads having had a poor history of labor relations (see, e.g. the railroad strike of 1877 which began against the B&O in Martinsburg West Virginia and spread often becoming a general strike in much of Pennsylvania and the Pullman Strike in 1894 (I believe). Few Americans realize how close the United States came to having workers overthrow the government in the 1877 strike - if military reconstruction had not previously ended with the Republicans selling out their southern supporters (which were mainly Southern blacks at the time) in the stolen election of 1876 (which was eerily similar to the 2000 election right down to being decided in Florida) the U.S. may have lacked the troops to violently supress the general strike. Anyway, while law is my profession, labor and industrial history is my passion so I could talk all day about that. Anyway, here is the end of the empties.
Photo Date:  5/12/2008  Upload Date: 5/24/2008 8:44:46 AM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
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SLGG 5076
Title:  SLGG 5076
Description:  End of Train, End of Train. End of loud period, now back to a quiet morning on the Mississippi.
Photo Date:  5/12/2008  Upload Date: 5/24/2008 8:44:48 AM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories:  RollingStock
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UP 5976 Provides a Welcome Surprise
Title:  UP 5976 Provides a Welcome Surprise
Description:  The first of three trains in one hour along this line early Monday morning. I had literally just parked my car in the riverfront park when I heard the whistle (way softer than the IC&E SD40's that generally run through here) and saw the lights of this guy - got there just in time!). This was a load of empties headed towards Clinton, Iowa and eventually, the Powder River Basin for more coal.
Photo Date:  5/12/2008  Upload Date: 5/24/2008 8:44:49 AM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
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Locomotives:  UP 5976(AC44CWCTE)
Views:  157   Comments: 0
GBRX 98816
Title:  GBRX 98816
Description:  I wonder how the graffiti writers would feel if the railroad would come along and smash their property
Photo Date:  5/12/2008  Upload Date: 5/24/2008 8:44:50 AM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  60   Comments: 0
CRDX 13530
Title:  CRDX 13530
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/12/2008  Upload Date: 5/24/2008 8:44:52 AM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  46   Comments: 0
ICE 4203
Title:  ICE 4203
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/12/2008  Upload Date: 5/24/2008 8:44:53 AM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ICE 4203(GP40-2) DME 3801(GP38)
Views:  384   Comments: 0
ICE 4203
Title:  ICE 4203
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/12/2008  Upload Date: 5/24/2008 8:44:55 AM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ICE 4203(GP40-2) DME 3830(GP38-3)
Views:  177   Comments: 0
ICE 4203
Title:  ICE 4203
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/12/2008  Upload Date: 5/24/2008 8:44:56 AM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
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Locomotives:  ICE 4203(GP40-2) DME 3801(GP38)
Views:  335   Comments: 0
This is Just a Test
Title:  This is Just a Test
Description:  If it was a real train photo, there would be information about what it was, however, this was just trying to see whether I would be able to get something from the train I heard approaching. BTW, I really recommend checking out http://www.conelrad.com for some great stuff about the "Golden Age of Homeland Security" and popular culture of the Atomic Age and early Cold War. Gee, anymore obscure references, and these photos will start to sound like an MST3K episode.
Photo Date:  5/12/2008  Upload Date: 5/24/2008 6:59:03 AM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
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UP 7158
Title:  UP 7158
Description:  With a Mid-American Energy Coal train out of the Powder River Basin (yet, as a bit of an routing oddity it is headed southwest out of Clinton, Iowa to the powerplant)
Photo Date:  5/12/2008  Upload Date: 5/24/2008 6:59:05 AM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
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Locomotives:  UP 7158(AC44CW) UP 6173(AC44CW)
Views:  252   Comments: 0
UP 7158 and 6173 take the MARX Brothers Along the IC&E
Title:  UP 7158 and 6173 take the MARX Brothers Along the IC&E
Description:  A unit coal train out of the Powder River Basin for some Mid-American Energy power plant someplace in Iowa. If anyone has any information or just wants to post their favorite lines from Marx Brothers movies (or the Karl Marx's Big Book of Fun (a.k.a. Das Kapital) let me know). All I know is that this train was loaded with coal and headed southwest from Clinton, Iowa. Also it was coming in a direction that it was backlit and I thought that this angle would be better than trying to shoot directly into the sun (which is rather bad for one's eyes). In the afternoon, this would be a great photo spot - I like the angle and the old factory and trees provide a backdrop
Photo Date:  5/12/2008  Upload Date: 5/24/2008 6:59:06 AM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 7158(AC44CW) UP 6173(AC44CW)
Views:  379   Comments: 0
UP 7158 Leads a Coal Train
Title:  UP 7158 Leads a Coal Train
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/12/2008  Upload Date: 5/24/2008 6:59:08 AM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 7158(AC44CW) UP 6173(AC44CW)
Views:  266   Comments: 0
UP 7158
Title:  UP 7158
Description:  If CP has their way, the sight of an UP coal train passing through this line may well be a thing of the past.
Photo Date:  5/12/2008  Upload Date: 5/24/2008 6:59:09 AM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 7158(AC44CW) ICE 4203(GP40-2) DME 3801(GP38)
Views:  415   Comments: 0
UP 6173
Title:  UP 6173
Description:  This was the 2nd of 3 trains which went through in one hour. With this one I also tried to find a location that the bright early morning sun would interfere with the least.
Photo Date:  5/12/2008  Upload Date: 5/24/2008 6:59:10 AM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
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Locomotives:  UP 6173(AC44CW) UP 7198(AC44CW)
Views:  260   Comments: 0
MARX 7563 No More MARX jokes, I promise
Title:  MARX 7563 No More MARX jokes, I promise
Description:  Three guys walked into a bar. You'd think that the last two would have ducked. Ha, I didn't say no more jokes. No one is likely to look at this photo anyway.
Photo Date:  5/12/2008  Upload Date: 5/24/2008 6:59:11 AM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  44   Comments: 0
MARX 7567 (Groucho or Karl?)
Title:  MARX 7567 (Groucho or Karl?)
Description:  My favorite Groucho Marx quote: (as an attorney in court) "who are you going to believe, me or your eyes?" None of the lines in the Communist Manifesto or Das Kapital were that memorable but Karl's understanding of what industrialization was doing to society was very good, but his solution to the problems of capitalism left a lot to be desired. So Groucho wins.
Photo Date:  5/12/2008  Upload Date: 5/24/2008 6:59:13 AM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  57   Comments: 0
All Hail Marx and Lennon (How can you be in two places where you are no place at all?)
Title:  All Hail Marx and Lennon (How can you be in two places where you are no place at all?)
Description:  Since I can't see any of the numbers of these MARX gondolas, I'll just make a Firesign Theatre reference. Who chooses reporting marks anyway, someone at Mid-American Energy had to know that these type of jokes would follow when they got the reporting mark MARX.
Photo Date:  5/12/2008  Upload Date: 5/24/2008 6:59:14 AM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
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Views:  51   Comments: 0
MARX 7534 (Duck Soup or The Communist Manifesto?)
Title:  MARX 7534 (Duck Soup or The Communist Manifesto?)
Description:  Looking at this reporting mark, I cannot decide whether to think Duck Soup or the Communist Manifesto. Given that Mid American Energy is owned by Berkshire Hathaway, probably Duck Soup is the more appropriate thought even though its hard to imagine Warren Buffet loosening up that much - he never struck me as a very humorous person. Yes, this reporting mark leads to this sort of thing.
Photo Date:  5/12/2008  Upload Date: 5/24/2008 6:59:15 AM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
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Views:  59   Comments: 0
MARX 7507 and several other MARX Brothers.
Title:  MARX 7507 and several other MARX Brothers.
Description:  This is probably actually better than referencing Gang of Four songs since people are more likely to recognize the Marx Brothers. BTW, on a totally unrelated note, which Stooges were cooler - Iggy's or Moe's?
Photo Date:  5/12/2008  Upload Date: 5/24/2008 6:59:16 AM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
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Views:  47   Comments: 0
MARX 7588 (Das Kapital)
Title:  MARX 7588 (Das Kapital)
Description:  You know that I took all of these pictures of these MARX cars just to make communism and Marx brothers jokes. Shameless, I know.
Photo Date:  5/12/2008  Upload Date: 5/24/2008 6:59:18 AM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  46   Comments: 0
MARX 7555
Title:  MARX 7555
Description:  What would Karl say about the Powder River Basin coal lines? What would Groucho say?
Photo Date:  5/12/2008  Upload Date: 5/24/2008 6:45:36 AM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  55   Comments: 0
MARX 7536
Title:  MARX 7536
Description:  I keep typing in Mark as the reporting mark on these things - you know, Mark Marx (no relation to Groucho, Harpo, or Chico or Karl as far as I know). Hey, did you know that besides owning Mid-American Energy and GEICO, Berkshire Hathaway also owns Dairy Queen. Odd that one company would own both an electric company and Dairy Queen, but I'd never question whether Warren Buffet knows what he is doing.
Photo Date:  5/12/2008  Upload Date: 5/24/2008 6:45:38 AM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  69   Comments: 0
Gondolas Reflect in the Early Morning Sunlight
Title:  Gondolas Reflect in the Early Morning Sunlight
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/12/2008  Upload Date: 5/24/2008 6:45:39 AM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  45   Comments: 0
MARX 98593
Title:  MARX 98593
Description:  Interestingly, this PRB coal for Mid-American Energy is being hauled by UP, even though Mid-American's parent company, Berkshire Hathaway is one of BNSF's largest shareholders. Funny how business works sometimes.
Photo Date:  5/12/2008  Upload Date: 5/24/2008 6:45:41 AM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  40   Comments: 0
End of MARX (Mid American Energy) Coal Train
Title:  End of MARX (Mid American Energy) Coal Train
Description:  I noticed the good reflection off of the giant puddle and was hoping that this loaded coal train had a DPU - it didn't so I had to settle for this reflection of a gondola.
Photo Date:  5/12/2008  Upload Date: 5/24/2008 6:45:46 AM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  61   Comments: 1
ICE 4203
Title:  ICE 4203
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/12/2008  Upload Date: 5/24/2008 6:45:48 AM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ICE 4203(GP40-2) DME 3801(GP38)
Views:  251   Comments: 0
ICE 4203
Title:  ICE 4203
Description:  Just playing around seeing if I could get a good reflection shot of the yard power. Too bad, they were farther from the water than the MARX gondolas were.
Photo Date:  5/12/2008  Upload Date: 5/24/2008 6:45:49 AM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ICE 4203(GP40-2) DME 3801(GP38)
Views:  296   Comments: 0
Yes, there was some flooding around Muscatine
Title:  Yes, there was some flooding around Muscatine
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/12/2008  Upload Date: 5/24/2008 6:45:51 AM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
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Views:  59   Comments: 0
CRDX 13574
Title:  CRDX 13574
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/12/2008  Upload Date: 5/24/2008 6:45:52 AM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories:  RollingStock
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Lots of Exhaust in the Distance
Title:  Lots of Exhaust in the Distance
Description:  I had to snap a picture of this impressive amount of exhaust
Photo Date:  5/12/2008  Upload Date: 5/24/2008 6:45:54 AM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
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Lots of Smoke in a Distance
Title:  Lots of Smoke in a Distance
Description:  This isn't a very good photo, but I couldn't resist documenting how much smoke these diesels were giving off as this train approached. I was starting to wonder if a steam locomotive was approaching!
Photo Date:  5/12/2008  Upload Date: 5/23/2008 10:41:57 PM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
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DME 6054 Approaches With Lots of Smoke
Title:  DME 6054 Approaches With Lots of Smoke
Description:  I think it was the other locomotives that were giving off all of the smoke, but again, while hardly the greatest picture, I had to document this smokey approach (good thing too, by the time the train got to me, it was no longer smoking like this)
Photo Date:  5/12/2008  Upload Date: 5/23/2008 10:42:00 PM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
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Locomotives:  DME 6054(SD40-3)
Views:  384   Comments: 0
DME 6054
Title:  DME 6054
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/12/2008  Upload Date: 5/23/2008 10:42:01 PM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories: 
Locomotives:  DME 6054(SD40-3)
Views:  311   Comments: 0
DME 6051
Title:  DME 6051
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/12/2008  Upload Date: 5/23/2008 10:42:03 PM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories: 
Locomotives:  DME 6051(SD40-3)
Views:  252   Comments: 0
DME 6051
Title:  DME 6051
Description:  The third of three trains in about 1 hour this morning
Photo Date:  5/12/2008  Upload Date: 5/23/2008 10:42:04 PM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
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Locomotives:  DME 6051(SD40-3) DME 6364(SD40-2) DME 6362(SD40-2) ICE 6452(SD40-2)
Views:  741   Comments: 1
DME 6051
Title:  DME 6051
Description:  These locomotives were giving off a lot of smoke the entire time I could see them. Given that this morning was a bright sunny day, I tried to get to a space that would be less backlit - it sort of worked but is rather shadowy.
Photo Date:  5/12/2008  Upload Date: 5/23/2008 10:42:06 PM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories: 
Locomotives:  DME 6051(SD40-3) DME 6364(SD40-2) DME 6362(SD40-2) ICE 6452(SD40-2)
Views:  679   Comments: 0
DME 6364
Title:  DME 6364
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/12/2008  Upload Date: 5/23/2008 10:42:07 PM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories: 
Locomotives:  DME 6364(SD40-2) DME 6362(SD40-2) ICE 6452(SD40-2)
Views:  570   Comments: 1
DME 6362
Title:  DME 6362
Description:  the building in the background is some sort of apartment house - I'm not sure if it was always apartments or converted from a mansion - most of the big houses in Muscatine are up the hill on 2nd/3rd street where there is no risk of flooding and away from the industrial riverfront, so it may have been built as apartments. It looked much better here in 2008 than it did in 2010.
Photo Date:  5/12/2008  Upload Date: 5/23/2008 10:42:09 PM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
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Locomotives:  DME 6362(SD40-2)
Views:  379   Comments: 1
ICE 6452
Title:  ICE 6452
Description:  nice view of one of the last operating button factories in Muscatine behind the locomotives.
Photo Date:  5/12/2008  Upload Date: 5/23/2008 10:42:10 PM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ICE 6452(SD40-2) DME 6362(SD40-2) DME 6364(SD40-2)
Views:  557   Comments: 1
ICE 6452
Title:  ICE 6452
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/12/2008  Upload Date: 5/23/2008 10:42:12 PM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ICE 6452(SD40-2) DME 6362(SD40-2) DME 6364(SD40-2) DME 6054(SD40-3)
Views:  714   Comments: 0
ICE 6362
Title:  ICE 6362
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/12/2008  Upload Date: 5/23/2008 10:12:41 PM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories: 
Locomotives:  DME 6362(SD40-2) DME 6364(SD40-2) DME 6364(SD40-2) ICE 6453(SD40-2)
Views:  581   Comments: 1
CPA 629026
Title:  CPA 629026
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/12/2008  Upload Date: 5/23/2008 10:12:47 PM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  313   Comments: 1
SOO 119203
Title:  SOO 119203
Description:  In the future when this line again is owned by CP, this will likely be a common sight
Photo Date:  5/12/2008  Upload Date: 5/23/2008 10:12:48 PM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  140   Comments: 0
SOO 75008
Title:  SOO 75008
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/12/2008  Upload Date: 5/23/2008 10:12:50 PM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  136   Comments: 0
ANR 649
Title:  ANR 649
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/12/2008  Upload Date: 5/23/2008 10:12:51 PM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  156   Comments: 0

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