This old trooper went on to serve Iowa Interstate for a number of years. Here shown in 1976. Larry Anglund photo.
The old steam era turn table in Peoria. It was later moved to a tourist operation in Monticello, Illinois. Larry Anglund photo.
Yeah, cause it was like that for awhile, front end is dirty already. Overspray on the lead truck too, didn't mask it off very well, rush job....
Located east of Des Moines, Grinnell, IA's depot as seen in better days. The M&St.L. crossed the CRI&P here.
I was just perusing some older issues of N Scale Railroading magazine. In the March/April of 2015 issue, (Page 38), is a nice article by our own Jim Wiggin, about modeling this unit. Interesting information?