Some days when I would be railfanning the Ottumwa Subdivision in Monmouth, I could hear train horns blowing to the south of me. This is the Chillicothe Subdivision. One Satarday morning with nothing better to do, I decided to start walking South down a lonly stretch of road until I found it. In no time, I was surrounded by nothing but farmland, in a landscape so quiet you could hear a pin drop a mile away. The tracks were farther than I imagined because it was taking forever to get there but I could hear the horns getting louder as I walked along. An eerie mix of lonliness and serenity came over me and distracted me from the real reason I was walking out here. I then stopped when I saw the silhouette of a stacktrain in the distance, rolling through the countryside about 2 miles away. I stopped to set up my tripod to wait for another. In no time, another Westbound appeared to my Left emerging behind the rolling hills. I then realized, I have never done this kind of railfanning, or literally been all alone in the middle of nowhere. It's hard to believe this very line runs through urban Lockport and Joliet. The lonliness really gets to you out here. Also there was about 2 hours of walking in each direction, just thought I'd tell ya.
1st Train S-LPCLBG
BNSF ES44DC #7583
BNSF C40-8W #616 (Ex ATSF)
BNSF ES44DC #7572 (DPU)
BNSF C44-9W #5018 (DPU)
2nd Train Q-LACNYC
BNSF ES44DC #7635
BNSF ES44DC #7634
3rd Train Q-LPCLAC
NS D940CW #9845
BNSF C44-9W #?
NS SD70M #?
4th Train F-ICIBP
UP SD70M #4081
UP SD70M #4772
5th Train F-ZCSTU
UP SD70ACe #8539
UP SD70M #?
UP SD70ACe #?
Train 6 Amtrak Southwest Chief 3 with BNSF executive cars.
P42DC #83
P42DC #17
Filmed on 10-4-08.
9th Street Productions.
Author: BoxcarFrank
Keywords: BNSF UP NS Railfanning Ormonde Train Monmouth Intermodal SD70M C44-9W
Added: November 25, 2008
Grand Old Lady at the Ottumwa Teen Center. October 24, 2008. There is an epic stick drop at about 2:00. I'm not quite sure what happened there...
Author: grandolddrummer
Keywords: Grand Old Lady
Added: November 23, 2008
The Hometown with Dana Brown segment that features Sabien Meets Hunt Productions on their feature film "Always Greener", which aired Fall of 2001 on Ottumwa Iowa's Fox 15.
Author: JayMJohnson
Keywords: Always Greener
Added: November 23, 2008
Here's some video I shot of two coal trains passing through Ottumwa, Iowa, on 9/16/08. The first train is an empty westbound with two ES44AC's and a KCS AC4400CW. The second train is a full westbound led by an SD70ACe, an SD70MAC and an ES44AC on the rear.
Author: EverywhereWest
Keywords: BNSF ES44AC SD70ACe coal train freight railroad
Added: November 16, 2008
Here's some video I shot of a BNSF mixed freight train passing through Ottumwa, Iowa on 9/16/08. In the lashup is a rare CITX SD70M-2, one of only three that exist! It was one of the original SD70M-2 testbeds.
Author: EverywhereWest
Keywords: BNSF CITX SD70M-2 rare testbed manifest mixed freight train
Added: November 15, 2008
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