The conductor on an eastbound Rock Island freight grabs orders from the operator at Culver Tower in Muscatine where the MILW mainline from Kansas City joined the RI mainline to Davenport.
The Chicago Great Western lives on in 2008, on a great looking caboose.
Mc Cloud River caboose is just one of the rooms available at this scenic point in northern California.
A CSX switch job is done for the day as it shoves into Plymouth yard to tie up.