Oh btw just thought I'd add knowing something on Burlington and railroad traffic, Burlington is on the Chicago-Denver main of the BNSF (part of it branches off in Nebraska near Lincoln and heads for the Wyoming coal fields). About 60-75 trains a day pass through Burlington on that double tracked main with coal, mixed freight and a few double-stacks, Amtrak's California Zephyr passes through west-bound in the early evening and east-bound around noon. Burlington has a cool passenger rail station thats down near the ole river thats being rehabed and should standout once its done (it was once a nice gem with an eating establishment and small shops but it was badly damaged in the 93 flood and I believe had some damge in the June 08 flood as well). Besides BNSF Norfolk Southern has trackage-rights on that main so you can see some NS trains on there as well, an interesting side note: some of the white tank cars that run through have a beer concentrate mix thats loaded at the Miller-Coors brewery in Golden CO enroute to Milwaukee to be packaged as Coors Light (as strange as it sounds Miller MGB is now brewed in Golden CO, also Molson is still part of that huge corp as well).
Just some rail stuff I thought I'd share..
Scott