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OMG, this is SO unbelievably good. I need to get out to western IA on the Overland Route again soon.

😉👍 I got your back... I'm working on editing as much as I can of mine video... I started off in Grand Mound, IA and went to Sterling, IL... Way too crazy got a bit of video to share. What a ride man that Big Boy can move! I hope to have it up sometime here...

Nice video! I chased it Belle Plaine to Cedar Rapids

6:04 very nice

First, to comment yea

Nice. I love CN. Don't get to see them much sometimes get lucky around Pekin IL.

Sweet!

Squirrel are crazy 😂

What a very weird unit

Very nice

75i meh lol 😂

Very nice catch

Thanks for sharing. Every video gives modelers ideas look forward to more happy rail fanning!!!

Nice catch Don, i think that is the first time i ever saw a train on those tracks. Kinda interesting

Nice to see that CN hasn't ditched or hidden all of them completely. I still see a few around in Chicago South & West Suburbs though!

12:54 better than 79

Go with DigiTrax

3:23 bad boy lol 😂

Just a little stuff lol 😂

0:16 your welcome

0:56 your welcome

I was 1st to comment lol

Very nice

They have the Centennial running now? Awesome!

I took some pics of it when it got there. It arrived yesterday.

Does it run

ITS 6988!!! I hope it will return to service along with 7081

Hey I might be able to catch it!

At least 4014 wasn’t in Jonesboro, AR on March 28th 2020.

Course me forgot my phone up to the bridge lol

Where are they taking her and why?

This was unexpected.

Great catch Don , love the steam locomotive.

I will join the RRHMA because they could run steam locomotives better and running classic locomotives, 3985, 5511, 261, 6988 are my goal locomotives.

Very nice

Never thought they would remove 8419's original lettering. I like its look though!

I agree Don about the Illinois central locomotive . Don't see them much around here.

I was there but it happened after we left

Very nice catch 0:39

Have been on those trains many times , always wanted to ride in the caboose.

13:46 me talking lol 😂

Thanks for a great day brother

😮 What happened to the Red... It's been a several years since I've been out there... I don't think I like the new paint job. I didn't recognize it at first...

Don Steils, good video! I watched your full video on July 29th, one month afterward. I attended this event too, along with my friend "Mazon," from our home state Michigan! WOW!!!! It was great to see CP 2816 there and steaming!!!! 😲 😲 😲 😯 Even though I caught the CP "Final Spike" steam 2816 in MN/WI/IL with "Railfan" Gary Sample, I had to get it some more! We had tickets to go inside! It was amazing! The ex BNSF B40-8W (# 537) they are preparing to paint into fresh ATSF colors! This will be amazing! I am looking forward to UP 5511/3985 steam locos being re-assembled! I have photographed UP 6936 only once before. It was at Franklin Park, IL "Railroad Daze," June 5, 2010. That Chinese steam, Iowa interstate # 6988, was nice! I have seen it in operation in the past! I followed the "Triple Headed" steam trip with both Ji-Tong Chinese engines, 6988 and 7081, September 16, 2006! That was so great!!!! At the Silvis tour it was great to find NREX diesels! One engine is not in this video! The greatest was Hudson Bay Railway SD50 # 5003! I have never photographed a HBRY engine! I was so happy to finally see this HBRY SD50 inside the shop! I took excellent pictures of it on film. WOW! 😃 It had good light on the nose inside from the ceiling windows. There are still a couple of these on Illinois Railway but patched! I was told NREX is preparing to move this engine to another location! I did not catch IAIS SD38s running, just the stored ones and slugs! I could not walk up to those engines and took pix on my way out! Glad to see an IC&E SD40-2 still in full ICE colors/number! Number 6100. YESS!!!! WOW!!!! WOW!!!! Any locomotive in Conrail Blue paint in 2024 is amazing! How did this SD50 survive so long? I did not even think this was here. During the June month that CR was split 25 years ago! WOW!!!!! 😁 😁 😁 😁 😁 After the Silvis event, Mazon and I went to the Galesburg, IL RR Days "V.I.P. Bus tour!" This was great! Captured lots of ex ATSF "Warbonnets" and some BN stuff too! Even a display engine at the Amtrak station was BNSF "Warbonnet" C44-9W # 720! Later Mazon and I followed the CPKC "Final Spike" train up to Bellevue, Iowa. I hauled myself and five cameras, tripods and chair to the shoulder of Route 52! I use only film cameras of both 35mm and 120 Medium Format. I also do S-VHS videos! 😉 Robert J

Finally 2816 not using its emergency whistle lol

Very nice

Looks like it Wisconsin bound coalTrain

21:30 ding ding lol 😂

You mean county Mounties