The days are getting longer, but the river still shows signs of the winter that hangs on as empty coal hoppers cross into Iowa.
Making the turn off the Brookfield sub onto the Ottumwa sub, this empty coal train has completed leg one of its reload cycle.
Action at Monmouth on a fine Sunday afternoon includes empty hoppers led by an almost-new warbonnet.
"They're givin' you a number, and takin' 'way your name"...Johnny Rivers/Secret Agent Man...lyrics that describe the renumbered & relettered BNSF 8257--disguised as an empty hopper train over form... (more)