The Austin local heads back to Austin out of Mason City with a plow and a handful of cars. Here the job pushes thru Grafton at MP 14, 14 miles north of Mason City.

The DM&E Plow extra is stopping at Ossian to wait for 579 coming out of Marquette. This crew started at 06:30 this morning at Mason City and will work to Marquette today. This plow mainly flanges ... (more)

The DM&E extra works east with their Russell Plow out of Mason City. Here the crew is flanging east of Calmar. Heavy plowing west of Calmar ended up breaking a chain that hold the wings in, so the... (more)

A UP Spreader is working westbound on UP's East-West Mainline. Here the spreader nose plows as they past thru Lisbon, about 20 miles east of Cedar Rapids. Spreaders on the double track mainline ar... (more)

10 miles south of Manchester, the Cedar Rapids local rolls south plowing the branch out from the last winter storm. L563 has a wedge plow and a couple cars as they make their way south of Ryan. I ... (more)

The CN is working east towards Chicago with its Jordan Spreader. Here the spreader nose plows the siding at Dyersville. A foot of snow, along with a day of high winds has the railroad drifted in. ... (more)

The 1st snow storm for the 2010-11 season has the CN bringing their Jordan Spreader out to nose plow and flange the subs west of Ft Dodge, IA. Here the plow extra blast thru a cut at MP 424 that h... (more)

The 1st snow storm for the 2010-11 season has the CN bringing their Jordan Spreader out to nose plow and flange the subs west of Ft Dodge, IA. The past 2 days the Cherokee Sub has been shutdown wi... (more)

3 B23-7's worked most of the 2000-01 winter on these Jordan Spreaders clearing the mainlines and branches around Mason City, IA. Here the crew is heading back to Mason City as they are done cleari... (more)

The DM&E Jordan Spreader is westbound on the Jackson Sub trying to open the line up. The spreader is near MP 110, just east of Huntley. Huntley is located 12 miles east of Fairmont, MN.

Metra 2158 is waiting at Grayslake for the 2149 to arrive at 8:15 pm. The 2158 is one of the few trains that turn at Grayslake and heads back to Chicago Union Station. This 2158 train set arrived ... (more)

The sun is rising on another day on the Mendota Sub near the small township of Meriden. These classic CB&Q signals litter this subdivision from Galesburg, IL, to Aurora, IL, on the 120 miles of th... (more)

The DM&E is plowing the Sheldon Sub westbound towards Spencer after the latest strong wind has drifts blown back in. Since the IC&E spreader is broke down at Spencer, the DM&E one has been used no... (more)

The DM&E is plowing the Sheldon Sub westbound towards Spencer after the latest strong wind has drifts blown back in. Here the plow has quite a bit of snow on that north side to push back. These 2 ... (more)

Westbound work train is near MP 396, couple miles west of Manson. This job would plow to Storm Lake today before calling it a day and tying up. The Cherokee Sub, the Omaha Sub, and Ida Grove Sub w... (more)