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It's the second year for the CPKC Holiday Train since the merger in 2023, and for the first time, the train's consist has been slightly altered to replace the "Canadian Pacific" script lettering on the boxcars with the new "CPKC" logo. Other than that, the trainset presses on as usual, holding its Christmas-themed concerts and canned food drives in communities across the CPKC system.

Here, the train has arrived in Davenport, IA, pausing next to the Quad Cities Bandits baseball field for visitors to take pictures in front of the locomotive while a huge crowd gets ready to enjoy the concert eight cars back.

It's the second year for the CPKC Holiday Train since the merger in 2023, and for the first time, the train's consist has been slightly altered to replace the "Canadian Pacific" script lettering on the boxcars with the new "CPKC" logo. Other than that, the trainset presses on as usual, holding its Christmas-themed concerts and canned food drives in communities across the CPKC system.

Here, darkness has fallen across Iowa and the train's Christmas lights are on full display as the train rolls through the dip under the Arsenal Bridge in downtown Davenport, IA, moments away from stopping next to the Quad Cities Bandits baseball field for its next show.

It's the second year for the CPKC Holiday Train since the merger in 2023, and for the first time, the train's consist has been slightly altered to replace the "Canadian Pacific" script lettering on the boxcars with the new "CPKC" logo. Other than that, the trainset presses on as usual, holding its Christmas-themed concerts and canned food drives in communities across the CPKC system.

Here, the train arrives in Clinton, IA, passing through the floodgate on the north side of town as it prepares to make its scheduled concert stop.

It's the second year for the CPKC Holiday Train since the merger in 2023, and for the first time, the train's consist has been slightly altered to replace the "Canadian Pacific" script lettering on the boxcars with the new "CPKC" logo. Other than that, the trainset presses on as usual, holding its Christmas-themed concerts and canned food drives in communities across the CPKC system.

Here, the train takes the left-hand turn onto the Davenport Subdivision after crossing the causeway in Sabula, IA.

Canadian Pacific 2816 operating between Davenport (Nahant), Iowa, and St. Paul, Minnesota, during the Final Spike Steam Tour.

Canadian Pacific 2816 operating between]Davenport (Nahant), Iowa, and St. Paul, Minnesota, during the Final Spike Steam Tour.

Canadian Pacific 2816 operating between]Davenport (Nahant), Iowa, and St. Paul, Minnesota, during the Final Spike Steam Tour.

Canadian Pacific 2816 operating between]Davenport (Nahant), Iowa, and St. Paul, Minnesota, during the Final Spike Steam Tour.

Canadian Pacific 2816 operating between]Davenport (Nahant), Iowa, and St. Paul, Minnesota, during the Final Spike Steam Tour.

Canadian Pacific 2816 operating between]Davenport (Nahant), Iowa, and St. Paul, Minnesota, during the Final Spike Steam Tour.

KCSM 4515 & 4073 lead hotshot stack train CPKC 181 northbound over Deer Creek (though you'd never know it's 181 with the angle I shot this train at and the large cut of junk manifest they tacked on the head end at Nahant), with the namesake siding's north end being around 10-15 car lengths behind the trailing locomotive. As the cranes and various other construction equipment is making evident, CPKC is wasting no time in making improvements to their St Paul/Chicago to KC/Mexico mainline corridor, right through eastern Iowa. Deer Creek is expected to have its siding extended quite a ways north of where this picture was taken, crossing Deer Creek here and ending somewhere out of the public's eye along the western banks of the Mississippi River. I'm not entirely sure how long the Deer Creek siding extension will be, nor when it's expected to be completed, but seeing as how this picture was taken exactly a year and one day ago (6/10/23), I'd assume much more progress has been made since then. It's both surreal and exciting to see all of the changes coming to the Iowa region of CPKC (I'll never get used to that awful acronym), let's just hope that these improvements pay off and the railroad generates as much traffic as they said they will. Taken on CPKC's Davenport Subdivision at MP 152.something-or-other.