The Iowa Northern has done alot of expanding at their Butler Yard. When I was chasing the North Crew I surprised how much trackage and business has gone in on the westside to the right. Butler Yar... (more)

One thing about Midwest winter's is things get screwed up and late. As is the case today as Caleb and I braved the cold weather to chase the South Crew back towards Waterloo. This is normally an o... (more)

The Sunday Waterloo Switcher had a slow day so they headed out to Vinton with 2 cars to spot on the branch. The crew is a couple miles south of Bryant Yard as they pass this old ex-Rock Island ABS... (more)

Most times, winter railroading isn't much fun from the railroader side. The weather conditions can make life 10 times harder than it has to be. Here the North Crew heads out to clean the dusting o... (more)

Nice match set of 7 GP38's bring the North Crew into Waterloo on a snowy Saturday morning. The train is about to Bryant Yard where they will setout heir train and built a train to head north towar... (more)

The IANR South Crew was alittle late a couple days when the weather got cold back in January. Here the job works back north towards Waterloo. The train is between La Porte City and Mt Auburn. Seei... (more)

The Iowa Northern's North Crew makes its way north towards Manly. The crew left Bryant Yard about 3 hours ago and hasn't done well to get across the CN trackage between Linden Ave and Cedar Falls ... (more)

The Waterloo Switcher is on the way back from the Union Pacific's Yard at Linden with a big pull. The Iowa Northern calls the cars to and from the UP the "overhead". UP has a landlocked ... (more)

The Iowa Northern has a roster with alittle bit of everything on it. Lots of times seeing large consists of the same power isn't too common. It has been a long time since I seen a large set of pur... (more)

The Hawkeye Express makes its annual pilgrimage to Coralville for the 2017 Iowa Football season.

An overhead view of Iowa Northern's Bryant Yard with a variety of equipment scattered about. In the upper right are a pair of ex-Rock Island E's bought by the IANR and painted by MAC in KC. Curren... (more)

Recently released from Mid-America Car, Rock Island E6A 630 and E8A 652 wait for the KCS to pull them and a myriad of other units from the industry track. They'll interchange to the CP at Knoche ... (more)

The Iowa Northern's Oelwein Job pokes along northbound toward Fairbank. The job has a small 4 car train as they cross the Wapsipinicon River in Bruggeman Park between Dunkerton and Fairbank. The j... (more)

The south end of the Iowa Northern the past 30 years has been somewhat a night time operation. You will find odd ball stuff running or late trains year in and year out. As was the case in January ... (more)

The Iowa Football season has ended and the Hawkeye Express heads back to Waterloo, Iowa vis the CRANDIC Amana line.