A late running CBBI finishes work in downtown Des Moines with Iowa Interstate's Rock Island painted ES44AC over a fresh layer of snow.

Grabbing some tank cars.

A pair of GP38-2s push in a string of freshly loaded fuel tankers.

Yard switching with a trainee using the Beltpack.

After leading a manifest into Des Moines, Iowa, a Union Pacific SD70M and AC4400CW break down their train on the inbound tracks at Shortline Yard. Once the crew drops this last cut of cars, they ... (more)

A trio of trains meet briefly at Union Pacific's Hull Avenue Yard on the east side of Des Moines, Iowa. UP 2711 is slowly rolling south with a loaded ethanol train as it approaches the signals for... (more)

A pair of GP's are hard at work on the east end of Union Pacific's Shortline Yard in Des Moines, Iowa pulling across a set of drainage culverts as they sort out blocks of cars.

A solo Union Pacific ET44AC leads a southbound loaded ethanol train as it departs from Des Moines, Iowa on the Trenton Subdivision. After getting the light across the Iowa Interstate and BNSF diam... (more)

A pair of GP's working on the Union Pacific yard job out of Shortline Yard in Des Moines, Iowa has taken a long cut out of the yard, pulling east for headroom on to Iowa Interstate's Newton Sub. T... (more)

Operating on a section of track far removed from the Norfolk Southern system, a pair of NS GP38-2's on DU90 take four tank cars west after picking them up from Helena Industries in Des Moines, Iow... (more)

The Union Pacific Des Moines local job has arrived at the Shortline Yard on the east side of Des Moines, Iowa and is shoving around the connector track off of the Trenton Sub. The crew will break ... (more)

SW1200 works the massive old style grain elevator in the old bottoms of central Des Moines. When loaded the cars will be picked up by Iowa Interstate to be handed off to NS at Peoria.

The setting evening sun lights up the face of a new SD40N rebuild. The crew has taken the advantage of the snoot nose to store about a months worth of bottled water.

EMD leased unit working for UP at Des Moines