Motive Power
IAIS uses 47 locomotives and two slugs to power its trains:
- 14 GE ES44AC (Numbered 500-513); unit 513 is painted in a Rock Island commemorative scheme.
- 8 EMD SD38-2 (Numbered 150-157)
- 22 EMD GP38-2 (Numbered 700-721)
- 1 EMD GP38 (Numbered 601)
- 2 Slugs (Numbered 650 and 651)
721 and 651 are permanently mated, as are 601 and 650
- 2 QJ 2-10-2 (Numbered 6988 and 7081), used for special excursions
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“He is the best sailor who can steer within the fewest points of the wind, and extract a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. Most begin to veer and tack as soon as the wind changes from aft, and as within the tropics it does not blow from all points of the compass, there are some harbors which they can never reach.”
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