GT 5813, the CN Cedar Rapids switcher, works the Ralston plant near Oakland Rd. NE. This line used to continue northeast to Marion to connect with the Milwaukee Road, which is now abandoned. Tod... (more)

Less than a month into it's service on the Iowa Northern, IANR 3807 leads a John Deere special southwards towards Cedar Rapids. The train consisted of 81 flats with two tractors on each. Tonight... (more)

BN 9568 leads BNSF 9647, the "Vomit Bonnet", eastbound into Lincoln on the Ravenna Sub. Our group scrambled down to the next crossing after this shot was taken to get rosters of 9647.

UP GEVO 5698 is the DPU on a Wisconsin-bound WPSX coal train. This is the first time I have seen a GEVO come out of the Blue Mountains to the midwest. Heads up for this unit, it went up the Spin... (more)

Iowa Interstate's newly long-term leased SD38-2's lead CRIC south past the Fairfax station board on CRANDIC tracks.

Two C6044AC's haul a grain load down from the corn branches on the UP Jewell Sub headed toward Ames.

A piece of equipment from each phase of the Iowa Division's history is present in the Cedar Rapids yard. IC 9568 quietly idles as plow CC 108058 and crane tender ICG 1012 patiently await their ne... (more)

Final Run of Crandic Job 2, the road job from Cedar Rapids to Iowa City.

The cows graze what is left of the soybeans as MDMDM heads south on the Spine Line towards Des Moines.

The Grand Excursion special crosses the IC&E causeway heading through Sabula, IA destined for Savanna, IL, just across the Mississippi River.

UP 8022 leads an empty coal train back towards the Powder River Basin.

UP 5915 leads an Oak Creek, WI bound coal train past College Farm Hill in Ames, IA. The location is called College Farm because off to the left in the distance is the campus of Iowa State Univers... (more)

Two true SD90MAC's lead the Elkhart, IN to North Platte manifest through Ames.

CNW 'Safety and Reliability' patch UP 9089 leads MDMDM as it accelerates out of a 10mph slow order.

This westbound empty has just taken a lunar indication at the East Ames crossovers, and is closely following a manifest that had just started moving towards Boone.