Amtrak #4 makes their way into Iowa as they cross the Des Moines River. The Chief has less than 20 miles to the next stop at Ft. Madison, and is making good time from LA with nearly on-time schedu... (more)

The mid-day Waterloo to Butler job is about to hit the CN CTC main on the westside of Waterloo. This job normally operates from IANR Bryant Yard in Waterloo to the Butler Yard north of Shell Rock.... (more)

The IANR had to use the normal 20:00 Butler crew to run the Oelwein Job the night before. The normal Oelwein Crew had to do some plowing. That now means the 8am Butler crew had to come to the CN o... (more)

BNSF 8360 is westbound after crossing the Mississippi River heading for a crew change at the small yard in Fort Madison.

The sun is beginning to set as Amtrak Southwest Chief #3 pulls in to Fort Madison.

BNSF 5539 shoves on the rear of a BNSF Eastbound Manifest as it passes the Ft Madison Veteran's Memorial. The wind was blowing pretty hard and thus had all the flags flapping in the wind as it pa... (more)

Amtrak 4 at their station shop in Fort Madison, Iowa

KCS 4769 leads CPKC 251 North through Waterworks.

It's a chilly February morning in Avery, Iowa as a BNSF ES44AC and SD70ACe lead eastbound coal loads past frozen farm fields. This is one of the sections of split main on the Ottumwa Subdivision, ... (more)

A pair of GP's working on the Union Pacific yard job out of Shortline Yard in Des Moines, Iowa has taken a long cut out of the yard, pulling east for headroom on to Iowa Interstate's Newton Sub. T... (more)

Iowa Interstate CBBI in Malcolm

A late running CBBI finishes work in downtown Des Moines with Iowa Interstate's Rock Island painted ES44AC over a fresh layer of snow.

A pair of GP15s is in charge of the Oskaloosa Local seen here headed south through Gilman, Iowa.

Canadian Pacific 7045 and 8072 lead the northbound manifest 475-25 through the S curve and dike flood wall in the Lyons neighborhood, Clinton, IA. Taken along the Canadian Pacific Davenport Subdiv... (more)

KCS' honoring veterans locomotive 4006, a UP AC44, and a pair of KCS GEVOs lead M33891-26 eastbound at the old Beth Siding. Taken on CN's Dubuque Subdivision.