With the first snow of the season coming down, GEVO 511 gets a taste of winter on the BICB as it approaches the crossing at Homestead, Iowa with a string of green INCOBRASA hoppers in tow.

ES44AC 504 leads the BICB through Marengo, Iowa on a sunny December afternoon.

SD38-2 157 along with GP32-2 708 AND ES44AC 503 race into the sunset heading for Newton, Iowa on a late, but snowy fall day.

A trio of GP38-2's led by 712 wait on the main while the east bound passes on the siding.

Henry Posner III's two QJs, 7081 and 6988, do their best to darken the sky as they climb a hill east of Adair with an 88-car manifest, which set the record for most steam-hauled tonnage in the 21s... (more)

Hopefully, we'll get another chance soon to see two 2-10-2s romping through Iowa on a revenue freight. Watching the QJs cross over Route 59 was an unforgettable experience.

Iowa Interstate's Blue Island - Council Bluffs road freight waits for the Metra rush to end before it proceeds west. The SD38s are finally making their way to Chicagoland.

After dropping about half of their train on the hill, the QJs pound westward into the setting sun to make Council Bluffs on time.

Fans and residents came from all over to get a glimpse of the two Chinese 2-10-2s as they made a water stop in Anita during Jim Gunning and Bill Raia's June photo charter.

A quartet of Geep 38's head west.

Unfortunately, the smoke from QJ 7081 obscures the trailing 2-10-2 and the freight train as the Steam Specials photo charter blasts through Wiota at around 40 MPH.

The west train rolls through Marengo while a rail gang takes the weekend off.

4 Iowa Interstate GP38-2s work hard to maintain 30mph as they cruise west out of Chicago on the old Rock Island main.

Iowa Interstate's road frieght out of Chicagoland accelerates through the forest preserves in the south suburbs.

3 IAIS GP38-2s have 2 ex-Soo Line GP-9s in tow as they wait for an outbound Metra to clear before departing Chicago for Council Bluffs.