Iowa Traction RR IATR 50 is tied down at Mason City on the main outside the UP interlocking. IATR built for the Washington & Old Dominion in 1920 and spent time on the Cedar Rapids & Iowa City and... (more)

Iowa Traction RR IATR 50 is tied down at Mason City on the main outside the UP interlocking. IATR built for the Washington & Old Dominion in 1920 and spent time on the Cedar Rapids & Iowa City and... (more)

Iowa Traction RR IATR 54 is tied down at Mason City outside the AGP elevator on the south end of town.

Iowa Traction 51 is down on its knees pulling a long cut of loaded hoppers upgrade. When the rear end clears the switch, IATR 60 will tie onto the rear car, pull the drag back down the hill, then... (more)

Built in 1917.

A crew member uncouples a cut of cars from IATR #51's train near the railroad's shops. This is one of the last electric freight railroads in the country, and their fleet of 4 steeplecabs make the ... (more)

Where else can you find historic steeplecabs pulling freight in the United States? The answer: no where. The Iowa Traction Railroad is one of the last electric freight operations in the country. T... (more)

The middle of summer in America's heartland.

Another timeless workday on the Iowa Traction begins with a pickup off the ICE interchange (seen on the right track), motor #54 with it's distinctive headlamps backs into the siding where sister #... (more)

Only In Iowa: In Mason City, Iowa, the tradition of traction railroading rolls on at the Iowa Traction Railroad, as ITRR 54 rolls around the curve near the Union Pacific Interchange in August 2010... (more)

The Iowa Traction brings scrap loads off the UP interchange to Behr's.

Engineer John Richards takes Iowa Traction trolley 727 east from Emery with a Steve Glischinski railfan special. The passengers are members of the railfan group who are riding to Mason City while ... (more)

IATR 54 brings a cut of three covered hoppers up to the DM&E interchange from the AGP feed mill.

Two of IATR's Baldwin-Westinghouse steeplecabs meet on the siding near Clear Lake Junction, near the DM&E interchange.

Iowa Traction 54 pulls a cut of three covered hoppers out of the AGP spur while sister 60 sits idle nearby. IATR 54 is a 50-ton steeplecab that was built by Baldwin-Westinghouse in May 1923 as ... (more)