Iowa Interstate QJ 6988 with ex-Pennsylvania Railroad, Austin & Texas Central passenger cars

Steam lives! Iowa Interstate Railroad's QJ 6988, a Chinese-built QJ-type 2-10-2 passes through Des Moines, Iowa on June 28, 2019, with auxiliary water tank car IAIS 8000, box car IAIS 9201, five passenger coach cars, and IAIS 707, a EMD GP38-2, on the rear.

The passenger cars – RRDX 1658 "Lake Inks", RRDX 1731 "Lake Lyndon B. Johnson", RRDX 1699 "Lake Marble Falls", RRDX 1654 "Lake Buchanan", and RRDX 1646 "Lake Travis" – were built by the Pennsylvania Railroad in the 1920s and refurnished in 1992 by the Austin & Texas Central Railroad.