Iowa Interstate turn job rolls throug Fairfax Iowa to the Union Pacific interchange at sunset

Double Heritage - Eastbound SASI , Iowa Interstate with three units leading a rather long train across the Iowa River in Iowa City IA. Two Heritage paint schemes in this consist

Empty unit oil train breaks the silence of New Albin, IA.

Empty unit oil train breaks the silence of Lansing, IA.

A rainy morning in Ottumwa, Iowa finds Canadian Pacific's train 261 tied down just outside of the yard, the crew having run out of hours before they could yard the train. On the point of the Kansa... (more)

A pair of GE's speed west as they roll through the double crossovers at the control point in Halpin, Iowa with empty coal train E PCLBKM0 15A in tow. This train came off of interchange with the Pa... (more)

With a trio of EMD's up front, including a triclops SD60M leader, the BNSF H GALDMO manifest rounds the bend as it approaches Sheahan, Iowa. The train will to a stop at the crossing up ahead and g... (more)

Working a customer, with a string of second handers, out on the plains is typical Northwestern. Photo by unknown, from my collection.

Cedar Valley Railroad unit "bug eye" is a ex-IC unit that looks like a GP10 but was never renumbered. Curious. Photo by unknown, from my collection.

KCS SD70MAC 3967 heads light through floodwaters in downtown Davenport, heading to LeClaire to pick up a ballast train.

CP 8126 leads CPKC 9-253 South through a flooded downtown Davenport.

IAIS ES44AC 503 leads BICB West past a old Rock Island signal in Davenport.

BNSF GP38-2 2099 leads BN Rock South through the Mississippi River floodwaters in Davenport.

KCS SD70MAC 3903 leads a manifest North through the Mississippi river floodwaters in downtown Davenport at sunset. Rapid snowmelt from Minnesota and Wisconsin has pushed the Mississsippi River ove... (more)

As the Mississippi River flooding continues to wreak havoc, ballast trains having been running day and night to fight the rising water. KCS 3967 leads an empty 3GPS north on a rainy Sunday mornin... (more)