Iowa Traction Railway steeple cab No. 54 switches the AGP bean plant in Mason City, Iowa, on April 15, 2008. The size of the 50-ton electric locomotive built in 1920 is dwarfed by the modern cover... (more)
Iowa Traction Railway No. 54 pulls cars out of the AGP bean plant across 19th Street in Mason City, Iowa, on April 15, 2008. On the right is motor No. 60 with a train on the “main line.”
A traction relic! Iowa Traction No. 54 switches the AGP plant in Mason City. The locomotive was built in May 1923 and has been running under wires for nearly a century.