Train Festival 2011 - Rock Island, IL

[EJ&ESDM809]

The Zephyr, CB&Q 9255 and CNW 411 are scheduled to depart IRM at 7:45 tommorow morning and take the UP out to Rockford, then the Illinois Railnet to Davis Junction, then the IC&E from Davis to the Quad Cities where the train will cross the Crescent Bridge into Rock Island. The 9911-A will lead the train under its own power for everything except the Railnet portion of the trip, which will require a back up move, which sounds like it will have CB&Q 9255 leading.

[PennCentralPowell]

Does any one know which steam locomotives will be operating there? I know that NKP #765 will be on hand as well as the Chinese Q-J 2-10-2's Will UP have #844 or #3985 there as well? wishful thinking at best. Probably all the 0-4-0 saddle tank engines that were in Owosso and Coldwater last week end .

[sd70accsxt700]

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