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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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Cargill Trackmobile
Title:  Cargill Trackmobile
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/9/2008  Upload Date: 5/19/2008 9:11:58 PM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
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Cargill Trackmobile
Title:  Cargill Trackmobile
Description:  Note the barge in the background - here grain is loaded from trains to barges (or perhaps vice versa, but I suspect it is shipped here and tranferred to barges to `e shipped to New Orleans to tranfer to an ocean going ship to go ouerseas).
Photo Date:  5/9/2008  Upload Date: 5/19/2008 9:20:36 PM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
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Views:  195   Comments: 1
IC&E Truck
Title:  IC&E Truck
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/9/2008  Upload Date: 5/19/2008 9:20:37 PM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
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Views:  116   Comments: 0
ICE 4203 at the Yard Office
Title:  ICE 4203 at the Yard Office
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/9/2008  Upload Date: 5/19/2008 9:20:40 PM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ICE 4203(GP40-2)
Views:  336   Comments: 0
ICE 4203 at the Yard Office
Title:  ICE 4203 at the Yard Office
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/9/2008  Upload Date: 5/19/2008 9:20:42 PM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ICE 4203(GP40-2)
Views:  1160   Comments: 0
TEIX 326
Title:  TEIX 326
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/9/2008  Upload Date: 5/19/2008 9:20:43 PM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  153   Comments: 0
Faded Milwaukee Road Logo
Title:  Faded Milwaukee Road Logo
Description:  Providing a reminder of who used to own these tracks is this old reefer now used for cold {torage
Photo Date:  5/9/2008  Upload Date: 5/19/2008 9:20:45 PM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
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Views:  116   Comments: 0
Open the FRood Gates
Title:  Open the FRood Gates
Description:  These flood gates are designed to keep the tracks#open to Muscatine shippers in case of flooding over the tracks - one of the main shippers there is Muscatine Power & Light who receives coal at their power plant - the shippers in Muscatine are all south of the gates - north of the gates, there isno levy.
Photo Date:  5/9/2008  Upload Date: 5/19/2008 9:20:47 PM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
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Views:  151   Comments: 0
Open Flood Gates
Title:  Open Flood Gates
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/9/2008  Upload Date: 5/19/2008 9:20:48 PM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore0
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Views:  114   Comments: 0
MILW Signal and another one'of the former Button Factories
Title:  MILW Signal and another one'of the former Button Factories
Description:  The Hotel Muscatine also appears in this photo (can also be seen in the older yard photos from the MILW yard on this site)
Photo Date:  5/9/2008  Upload Date: 5/19/2008 9:20:54 PM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
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Views:  136   Comments: 0
Switch at Yard Entrance
Title:  Switch at Yard Entrance
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/9/2008  Upload Date: 5/19/2008 9:20:55 PM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
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Views:  107   Comments: 0
itch and Signal
Title:  itch and Signal
Description:  I believe that both of these items date to when the Milwaukee Road owned this line. This marks the entry to Muscatine Yard (current boundaries, where I was standing would have been part of the yard approximately 15 years ago).
Photo Date:  5/9/2008  Upload Date: 5/19/2008 9:30:26 PM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
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Views:  135   Comments: 0
MILW Signal
Title:  MILW Signal
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/9/2008  Upload Date: 5/19/2008 9:30:27 PM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
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Views:  106   Comments: 0
Switch at Industrial Spur
Title:  Switch at Industrial Spur
Description:  The MSR (Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska, and Wyoming) 92 Bridge is in the background - that is Riwerside Park) Note the sign for the Great River Road and Business U.S. 61 and the sign for Inwa 92 - both routes turn left, then Iowa 92 crosses the bridge into Illinois.
Photo Date:  5/9/2008  Upload Date: 5/19/2008 9:30:29 PM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
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Old industrial Spur into the HON Industries Furniture plant and old spur (not sure if this was a MILW spur, remnant of an old line, etc.). There is an old yard a bit past this point, but it looks like the spur in the foreground is still used for one ship
Title:  Old industrial Spur into the HON Industries Furniture plant and old spur (not sure if this was a MILW spur, remnant of an old line, etc.). There is an old yard a bit past this point, but it looks like the spur in the foreground is still used for one ship
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/9/2008  Upload Date: 5/19/2008 9:30:31 PM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
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Views:  153   Comments: 1
Switch with the Mighty Mississippi River providing the background
Title:  Switch with the Mighty Mississippi River providing the background
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/9/2008  Upload Date: 5/19/2008 9:30:32 PM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
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Views:  115   Comments: 0
Another View of the Iowa DOT and IC&E Signage - this is different and much larger than the signage in Virginia I am used to seeing.
Title:  Another View of the Iowa DOT and IC&E Signage - this is different and much larger than the signage in Virginia I am used to seeing.
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/9/2008  Upload Date: 5/19/2008 9:30:34 PM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
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Views:  98   Comments: 0
Iowa's Crossings have these interesting signage on them - the IC&E signage is likely to soon disappear unless the CP deal falls through
Title:  Iowa's Crossings have these interesting signage on them - the IC&E signage is likely to soon disappear unless the CP deal falls through
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/9/2008  Upload Date: 5/19/2008 9:30:35 PM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
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Views:  113   Comments: 0
DME 3830
Title:  DME 3830
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/9/2008  Upload Date: 5/19/2008 9:30:36 PM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories: 
Locomotives:  DME 3830(GP38-3)
Views:  208   Comments: 0
DME 3830
Title:  DME 3830
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/9/2008  Upload Date: 5/19/2008 9:30:38 PM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories: 
Locomotives:  DME 3830(GP38-3)
Views:  175   Comments: 0
DME 3830
Title:  DME 3830
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/9/2008  Upload Date: 5/19/2008 9:30:39 PM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories: 
Locomotives:  DME 3830(GP38-3)
Views:  167   Comments: 0
Through the Floodgates!
Title:  Through the Floodgates!
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/9/2008  Upload Date: 5/19/2008 9:38:33 PM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ICE 6101(SD40-3) DME 6069(SD40-3) DME 6053(SD40-3)
Views:  1149   Comments: 0
Autoracks (and a few other cars) for Kansas City
Title:  Autoracks (and a few other cars) for Kansas City
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/9/2008  Upload Date: 5/19/2008 9:38:35 PM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ICE 6101(SD40-3) DME 6084(SD40-3)
Views:  926   Comments: 0
DME 6082
Title:  DME 6082
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/9/2008  Upload Date: 5/19/2008 9:38:36 PM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories: 
Locomotives:  DME 6082(SD40-3) ICE 6101(SD40-3) DME 6069(SD40-3)
Views:  1036   Comments: 0
ICE 6101
Title:  ICE 6101
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/9/2008  Upload Date: 5/19/2008 9:38:37 PM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ICE 6101(SD40-3) DME 6069(SD40-3)
Views:  918   Comments: 0
DME 6069
Title:  DME 6069
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/9/2008  Upload Date: 5/19/2008 9:38:39 PM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories: 
Locomotives:  DME 6069(SD40-3) ICE 6101(SD40-3)
Views:  851   Comments: 0
DME 6085
Title:  DME 6085
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/9/2008  Upload Date: 5/19/2008 9:38:40 PM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories: 
Locomotives:  DME 6085(SD40-3) ICE 6101(SD40-3) DME 6069(SD40-3)
Views:  1411   Comments: 0
ICE 6101
Title:  ICE 6101
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/9/2008  Upload Date: 5/19/2008 9:38:42 PM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ICE 6101(SD40-3)
Views:  606   Comments: 0
TTGX 604203
Title:  TTGX 604203
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/9/2008  Upload Date: 5/19/2008 9:38:43 PM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  93   Comments: 0
TTGX 254339 (Grand Trunk)
Title:  TTGX 254339 (Grand Trunk)
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/9/2008  Upload Date: 5/19/2008 9:38:45 PM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  101   Comments: 0
TTGX 987407 (TFM)
Title:  TTGX 987407 (TFM)
Description:  Carrying new pickup trucks west towards Kansas City
Photo Date:  5/9/2008  Upload Date: 5/19/2008 9:38:46 PM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  98   Comments: 0
CP Rail Autorack
Title:  CP Rail Autorack
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/9/2008  Upload Date: 5/19/2008 9:38:47 PM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
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Views:  98   Comments: 0
TTGX 45635 (Conrail)
Title:  TTGX 45635 (Conrail)
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/9/2008  Upload Date: 5/19/2008 9:38:49 PM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
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Views:  96   Comments: 0
TTGX 978638
Title:  TTGX 978638
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/9/2008  Upload Date: 5/21/2008 8:02:45 PM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  98   Comments: 0
TTGX 254873 (Southern Pacific)
Title:  TTGX 254873 (Southern Pacific)
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/9/2008  Upload Date: 5/21/2008 8:02:57 PM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  107   Comments: 0
TTGX 264956
Title:  TTGX 264956
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/9/2008  Upload Date: 5/21/2008 8:02:59 PM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  89   Comments: 0
A Load of New Cars Rolls on to Kansas City
Title:  A Load of New Cars Rolls on to Kansas City
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/9/2008  Upload Date: 5/21/2008 8:03:01 PM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
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Views:  102   Comments: 0
DME 6082
Title:  DME 6082
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/9/2008  Upload Date: 5/21/2008 8:03:02 PM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories: 
Locomotives:  DME 6082(SD40-3) ICE 6101(SD40-3) DME 6069(SD40-3)
Views:  947   Comments: 0
DME 6082
Title:  DME 6082
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/9/2008  Upload Date: 5/21/2008 8:03:03 PM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories: 
Locomotives:  DME 6082(SD40-3) ICE 6101(SD40-3) DME 6069(SD40-3)
Views:  1001   Comments: 1
DME 6069
Title:  DME 6069
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/9/2008  Upload Date: 5/21/2008 8:03:04 PM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories: 
Locomotives:  DME 6069(SD40-3) ICE 6101(SD40-3)
Views:  977   Comments: 1
ICE 6101
Title:  ICE 6101
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/9/2008  Upload Date: 5/21/2008 8:03:05 PM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ICE 6101(SD40-3)
Views:  748   Comments: 0
DME 6082
Title:  DME 6082
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/9/2008  Upload Date: 5/21/2008 8:03:06 PM
Location:  Muscatine, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories: 
Locomotives:  DME 6082(SD40-3) ICE 6101(SD40-3) DME 6069(SD40-3)
Views:  918   Comments: 0
The Rock Island Station on Railroad Street
Title:  The Rock Island Station on Railroad Street
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/9/2008  Upload Date: 5/21/2008 8:03:07 PM
Location:  Wilton, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  148   Comments: 0
Rock Island Depot
Title:  Rock Island Depot
Description:  The sign reads Welcome to Wilton, We Love You and displays a steam locomotive.
Photo Date:  5/9/2008  Upload Date: 5/21/2008 8:03:08 PM
Location:  Winchester, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
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Views:  113   Comments: 0
Rock Island Station
Title:  Rock Island Station
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/9/2008  Upload Date: 5/21/2008 8:03:10 PM
Location:  Wilton, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
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Views:  116   Comments: 0
Old Crossing Light (with Button Copy) On Display at Rock Island Station
Title:  Old Crossing Light (with Button Copy) On Display at Rock Island Station
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/9/2008  Upload Date: 5/21/2008 8:03:11 PM
Location:  Wilton, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
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Views:  126   Comments: 0
RI 17087 Still has its Christmas Lights in May?
Title:  RI 17087 Still has its Christmas Lights in May?
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/9/2008  Upload Date: 5/21/2008 8:03:13 PM
Location:  Wilton, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  196   Comments: 2
Built Plate on "Rock Island" Caboose
Title:  Built Plate on "Rock Island" Caboose
Description:  It looks like this caboose has been displayed in Wilton, Iowa since 1992. Built in 1938 for the Milwaukee Road
Photo Date:  5/9/2008  Upload Date: 5/21/2008 9:25:46 PM
Location:  Wilton, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  385   Comments: 0
Old Rock Island Signal
Title:  Old Rock Island Signal
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/9/2008  Upload Date: 5/21/2008 9:25:47 PM
Location:  Wilton, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
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Views:  121   Comments: 0
MILW Caboose (Displayed as RI 17087) at the Rock Island Depot
Title:  MILW Caboose (Displayed as RI 17087) at the Rock Island Depot
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/9/2008  Upload Date: 5/21/2008 9:25:48 PM
Location:  Wilton, IA
Author:  Zachary DeVore
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  387   Comments: 0

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