With the possible last train to ride over the CFU lead coming late 2023, I looked thru what I had from this dead end line. This was once the mainline of the Rock Island from West Liberty to Manly.... (more)

The IANR had to use the normal 20:00 Butler crew to run the Oelwein Job the night before. The normal Oelwein Crew had to do some plowing. That now means the 8am Butler crew had to come to the CN o... (more)

UP suffered a major derailment on their Mason City Sub at Hampton, IA on Labor Day. While clean up takes place the Iowa Northern has taken a bunch of southbound detours from Manly to Cedar Rapids... (more)

The Cedar River has taken on a new look late January. The CN changed the job to go to 1 crew with no company vehicle. The job now is working without a defined schedule and also times when all the ... (more)

Only 10 minutes behind the CN local 571, the IANR's North Crew splits from the CN at Cedar Falls and head north on the Manly Sub next to a partly frozen Cedar River. The job is a healthy 88 cars t... (more)

The daily local from Waterloo to Ft. Dodge heads up hill out of Cedar Falls and away from the partly frozen Cedar River. This job takes cars off of 337 and anything in Waterloo and head west with ... (more)

Iowa Northern #3808 heads west through Cedar Falls, crossing over the Cedar River bridge.

This wasn't the main prize of the day, but L569 departed Waterloo ahead of the Iowa Northern Job we were after, so I did alittle drone work around Cedar Falls Junction. CN has been good lately of ... (more)

Cutting its way in heavy wet snow that was rain just a short time ago.

L571 had the UP Olympic Torch unit and just after air testing the snow started and made getting a clean shot hard.

ICG RI Diamond In Cedar Falls the Rock Island has been shut down all most a year now and Iowa Northern hasn't started up.

Entering a snowscape full of drifts from 60MPH winds. The Month of February will be remembered by the ones that had to work out in it.

Local road train rolling thru Cedar Falls first town West of Waterloo.

Iowa Northern heads north with an empty potash train out of Waterloo. Since the UP run thru power was facing the wrong direction on the loaded side, the IANR helped out with one of their units tod... (more)

ICG's train Chicago - Council Bluffs making its way West.