The summer time offers more light to chase the Manchester Turn out of Cedar Rapids, on duty 17:00 during the week. While traffic has really hit the dumps with the virus stuff going on, the Cedar R... (more)

The CN ran their Geo Train across the Iowa Zone at the end of April. Usually the CN uses the RDC type test car CN #1501, but this time it was the train. Here the train heads back to Chicago testin... (more)

A Mounds City, IL, empty DDG train is yarding their train in Cedar Rapids. The CN yard in Cedar Rapids doesn't have any headroom, so the CN has to use the UP industrial trackage thru downtown Ceda... (more)

A interesting work train heads out of Mason City on the UP Spineline. The train needs to go all the way to Nevada to wye the train and come back (180 miles!). Here the train crosses the CP Sheldon... (more)

A North Platte to Chicago manifest had a small treat on the point today. We headed out for a small chase after they got done with their work at Beverly. Here the train rolls east pass this farmste... (more)

A North Platte to Chicago manifest had a small treat on the point today. We headed out for a small chase after they got done with their work at Beverly. This monster freight begins to stretch thei... (more)

The UP local out of Marshalltown rolls over the Iowa Interstate's Newton Sub at Grinnell. This beautiful restored depot is on the national register of historic places. The Rock Island built 1st in... (more)

Jointed rail, 3 geeps, and a 7 car local...doesn't sound like a class 1 operation in the US anymore, but the UP Oskaloosa Local out of Marshalltown was all that on Monday. The local departed Marsh... (more)

Since it was cloudy and a white countryside, I made the best to shoot some stuff on the northside of the UP main thru Iowa. Westbound auto train off the IHB at Gibson in Chicago rolls west on the ... (more)

With a bonus cancelled school day, we ventured out into the Iowa winter landscape. We made an afternoon on the UP's Clinton Sub between Blairstown and Belle Plaine. Traffic was light as we only se... (more)

I was ailttle surprised to see a couple SD70M's charging this hotshot Z-train from Global 1 to Brooklyn Yard in Portland, OR, westward. Here the train makes its normal afternoon/evening run across... (more)

Westbound Houston, TX, to South St. Paul manifest rolls past this 1880's old ex-ATSF depot in Atchison. This is the UP Falls City Sub that runs north from KC towards Omaha. The old depot is now a ... (more)

The bridge at Sibley on the BNSF Marceline is an impressive bridge from the air. This 4100 foot and 90 feet high bridge over the Missouri River was built in 1915. It is one of the few places were... (more)

Norborne is located on the busy joint trackage between the NS and the BNSF between WB Junction and CA Junction on the BNSF Marceline Sub. There is alot of neat things to look at from the air in th... (more)

An empty sand train rumbles east on main #2 at Norborne on the Marceline Sub. The train just meet a westbound Q-train who disappears to the west. Norborne is located on the busy joint trackage wit... (more)