Its pronounced Tie-rock Its here! The longest of the Tiroch Rails Series is now up and running Volume 3 contains the following scenes UP 8288 is leading 3 units and a Empty grain train across the empty desert along UP’s Sunset Route outside Santa Rosa, New Mexico Its the aftermath of Hurrican Katrina! TRRA SW1500’s 1501 and 1510 roll by in the torrental rains that the night before Devestated New Orleans. They are rolling by Brooklyn, IL In a sharp contrasts to the rains of Katrina, the BNSF Local heads back to North St. Louis with 0 trailing tons in West Alton, IL. Thats John “Splash” Withouse taking photos. Millenieum Rail Service’s rare SW1 calls Wood River, IL home, and here she is heading to interchange with the NS WC SD45 7551 “Customer Minded Employees” is trailing a standard NS C40-9W in North St. Louis KCS Trains MKCES and MESKC roll by Pontoon Road north of Granite City, IL. These trains are now run as MKCVN and MVNKC In Mid-2006, The BNSF Madison Turn showed up one day at the Terminal Railroads Madison yard with a GP38-2 and 5 SD9’s, The folks of Venice, IL couldn’t care less. A Few Minutes later, NS Train 111 rolls by with a lashup of 6 units, including an Operation Lifesaver GP59. BNSF 5076 is in charge with a St. Louis bound Roadrailer train through Ferguson, MO In Madison, IL, TRRA SD40R 3003, of SP heritage, and TRRA SD7 1751 of Pennsylvania Railroad Heritage roll into the Madison yard. 1751 has since been sold to ILSX and is now in Minnisota A BNSF SD40-2 …
