Loads grinding along trying to gain speed on the down hill parts of the run.

The last couple mornings the fog has made the Iowa landscape fairly frosty. Lucky for me the 337 also has been couple hours late which means they are still working to Waterloo at sunrise. Here the... (more)

Lots of people get cranked up for the RDC test car that CN uses to do geometry testing across their system. The only reason I was excited was for my kids to see it for the 1st time. The CN usually... (more)

Finding westbound trains on the CN around my place is pretty hard to do. Unless you find an extra nothing runs most afternoons. This evening we got lucky with an empty grain train rolling towards ... (more)

Finding westbound trains on the CN around my place is pretty hard to do. Unless you find an extra nothing runs most afternoons. This evening we got lucky with an empty grain train rolling towards ... (more)

The endless supply of foreign power to Iowa for CN continues. Here the Kirk Yard to Waterloo daily manifest train rolls thru the small town of Jesup 12 mile east of Waterloo. 12 more miles and the... (more)

Daily Kirk Yard to Waterloo manifest train heads into the siding at Jesup to meet its counterpart. When the trains are on time 338 doesn't normally meet yesterday's 337 east of Waterloo. 338 will ... (more)

The only scheduled train around my parts runs in the morning eastbound and runs at night westbound. So finding evening trains requires and extra unit train or an extra. It doesn't happen much, but... (more)

The engineer on this loaded ethanol train left Waterloo about 10 miles back. Thru the ups and downs the train hasn't gone much over 40mph with the throttle in the left corner. In this sag the trai... (more)

A loaded ethanol train off the Iowa Northern at Waterloo is about 12 mile into their to Chicago. The train will be interchanged to the NS at near Fordham Yard for points either south or east. The ... (more)

The daily Waterloo to Kirk Yard manifest train is stopped waiting on a meet with lite power at Jesup. The snow was really coming down and the snow from the day before was still stuck to all the tr... (more)

The daily Waterloo to Kirk Yard manifest train is stopped waiting on a meet with lite power at Jesup. The snow was really coming down and the snow from the day before was still stuck to all the tr... (more)

Class 1's have really either retired or repurpose most of their SD40-2 fleet. CSXT and the SD40 fleet, rumors are always fly around that these old dogs maybe not long for the world, but one never ... (more)

The CSXT and NS have been running thru some interesting power to the CN lately. Also with the CN extremely power short the CN has been using anything they can get their hands on to run trains. An ... (more)

After meeting 338, 337 slowly pulls out of the siding at Jesup for the last 11 miles into Waterloo. This train normally see this territory in the very early morning, but problems in Chicago yester... (more)