The Iowa Northern's Oelwein job went to work at noon today at Waterloo, and only made a Fairbank turn. Here the job picks up empty fertilizer cars from the Coop at Dunkerton. Then job will head to... (more)

The Iowa Northern's Oelwein job went to work at noon today at Waterloo, and only made a Fairbank turn. Here the job creeps back to Waterloo with cars from Fairbank and Dunkerton. Here the job cros... (more)

Passing springtime dandelions, an Iowa Northern freight heads south through Rockford, Iowa, on May 21, 2014.

Iowa Northern GP38-2 no. 3800 heads a freight southeast through Rockford, Iowa past the former Rock Island depot. The train is operating on Rock Island's former Manly, Ia. to Cedar Rapids line. Th... (more)

Iowa Northern has had alot of bugs to work out on these MK Cats. Finally someone came in and did a rebuild on the computers on these units so they would work better with the EMD power that IANR ha... (more)

Needing room at Bryant Yard in Waterloo, the Iowa Northern cabbed their Butler Crew to Waterloo to grab 2 units and 115 cars and head back to Butler. Here the crew comes off the Canadian National'... (more)

Iowa Northern is running unit ethanol trains to the Iowa Interstate in Cedar Rapids, traffic that was once going to the Canadian National at Waterloo. That means extra trains are now running south... (more)

Needing room at Bryant Yard in Waterloo, the Iowa Northern cabbed their Butler Crew to Waterloo to grab 2 units and 115 cars and head back to Butler. The job works north on the Manly Sub a few mil... (more)

The Iowa Northern has been getting extra traffic on the south end of their railroad this year. Here an ethanol train heads south for interchange with the Iowa Interstate at Cedar Rapids. The train... (more)

In 2009 a tough winter caused IANR to get stuck south of Nora Springs that took couple days to dig out from. http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=268687&nseq=5 Well the strong winds ove... (more)

In 2009 the tough winter caused IANR to get stuck south of Nora Springs. Well the strong winds over night and 5-8inches of snow has the line between Rockford and Nora Springs drifted in pretty goo... (more)

The Iowa Northern split the north train today at Greene due to last night's winter storm. The 1st crew ran lite power north to cut crossings and bust thru snow drifts. Well between Rockford and No... (more)

The Iowa Northern split the north train today at Greene due to last night's winter storm. The 1st crew ran lite power north to cut crossings and bust thru snow drifts. Here the crew creeps over th... (more)

Iowa Northern's Oelwein job heads back towards Waterloo with 33 cars out of Oelwein. Here the job is between Oelwein and Fairbank as they plow alittle snow. This job will do work at Fairbank ethan... (more)

This years Snow Flake Express seen some sun and 5 full train runs, Sold out it is all for charity. 4800 tickets sold for Magical Mix Kids.