Couple F40's and a slug work south with interchange traffic off the CP at Nora Springs. Most of this traffic is bound for Cedar Rapids and will be handed off to the south crew at Waterloo tonight.... (more)

Iowa Northern's North Crew is about to stop at the 1st stop since leaving Bryant Yard in Waterloo. Here at Shell Rock the crew has to spot and pull 11 cars from the elevator and spot 3 car of fert... (more)

Iowa Northern's North Crew left Bryant Yard on the south side of Waterloo at 3:20 pm, and find itself alittle over a hour later back on home rails and heading towards the 1st stop at Shell Rock. T... (more)

The North Crew's power is parked on the elevator track at Nora Springs. This power will be used to help run around the Fairbank ethanol train that will be here in 30 minutes. Since there only one ... (more)

The Iowa Northern's Oelwein job is heading south towards Waterloo with an ethanol train for the Canadian National at Waterloo, IA. Here they pull at 10 mph thru the sag a few miles south of Fairb... (more)

The Iowa Northern's Oelwein job went to work at 8 am at Waterloo and cabbed to Fairbank to put together an ethanol train for the Canadian National at Waterloo, IA. Here they head south towards Wat... (more)

Running light power back to there Bryant yard after dropping the UP set out from haulage rights.

The South Crew heads back towards Waterloo today with 2 CDAC units and 3 cars. This job normally would have the power in a push-pull mode due to the bridge still out to get over to the CRANDIC in ... (more)

A bit of speed on a magic carpet ride, More bumpy that it looks.

The 11 pm North Crew has about 5 miles left to get into Greene. At Greene another crew will jump aboard at 7am for the trip south towards Waterloo. Right now the North Crew only has 43 empties tha... (more)

I agree with someone's thought they put on this unit, it is a pretty dirty. These F40's the Iowa Northern newly acquired are fitting in well with the increase of traffic this shortline is experien... (more)

The North Crew is rolling along south of Packard. The next stop is Clarksville to pickup grain. The train has 43 cars of ethanol/DDG empties off the UP at Manly that goes back to Fairbank. The IAN... (more)

Lot of power for a short line