Western Railroad Discussion > UP at Boone Iowa 8 31 2025

Sunday the 31st I volunteered at the Boone and Scenic Valley. Before and after I got some UP action around Boone. 
1 and 2: Loaded rail train on the north siding. Not Sure where it was going.
3. Westbound Hopper with a Clinton(Iowa) Long Pool Crew 

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1 2 and 3:
After the hopper got by here comes and EB Z. 4x2x1. Something I havent seen in this arrangement before on a Z. 

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1. After I got done here is a WB at CP A203 about to make a set out and tie up downtown Boone
2. MNPSS on Main 2 which will make a set out and a grainer on the right waiting for a WB Z 
3. DPU on MNPSS 

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Now we are at MP 197 east of Jordan 
1. Westbound Z with a Clinton Long Pool Crew 
2. DPUs on the Z
3. Here comes the grainer 2x1. 

Thanks for looking. Happy Labor Day to all on TO

MILW86A 

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FYI---Fareway is a (mostly) Iowa grocery chain and is headquartered in Boone.  Their big selling point is their meat counter 
in which the meat is not prepackaged,
Thanks for psoting the pics, Dave.
zr190

zr190 Wrote:
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> FYI---Fareway is a (mostly) Iowa grocery chain and
> is headquartered in Boone.  Their big selling
> point is their meat counter 
> in which the meat is not prepackaged,
> Thanks for psoting the pics, Dave.
> zr190

Fareway last year moved their HQ out of Boone to a new office closer to Des Moines where most of their executives live anyway.   The warehouse seen in the photo stiill remains,,,fun fact up until the early 1980's that warehouse was rail served.
JC

As I watch these pictures, I can't help but feel the pervasive sadness that must have swept Boone in October of 1955 when the City trains were move from the Chicago and North Western to the Milwaukee Road.  Well, maybe. I'm still sad, but I'm a railfan. 

The "Big Switch" on 10-30-55 was indeed a VERY big deal back in my home state of Iowa.  As you can imagine, the towns on the CNW that lost service (Clinton, Marshalltown, Ames, Boone and Carroll) were indeed unhappy about losing the "Cities" trains to CNW rival Milwaukee Road.  And MILW went all out with the new service in that they changed their passenger colors from the traditional orange and maroon to UP's Armour Yellow with red/gray trim.  And this also led to the eventual demise of Union Station in downtown Cedar Rapids as well although nearby Marion really wasn't that far away at all (my late father used to drive taxi in Cedar Rapids shortly after he and my Mom were married back in 1936 and he regularly took passengers to and from Union Station and saw the UP-CNW "Cities" trains on a regular basis in that time up until about WWII when he started driving gas transport).  I was much closer to the MILW growing up and remember seeing the "Cities" trains in Marion all the time on trips to Cedar Rapids with my parents.   

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> As I watch these pictures, I can't help but feel
> the pervasive sadness that must have swept Boone
> in October of 1955 when the City trains were move
> from the Chicago and North Western to the
> Milwaukee Road.  Well, maybe. I'm still sad, but
> I'm a railfan.