The NRHS Excursion from Cedar Rapids to Rock Island and back is being pulled backwards by IAIS 513 over the Iowa River while IANR 678 and IANR 461 trail. At Rock Island, the train will return wit... (more)

The NRHS special is returning to Cedar Rapids after dropping the IAIS 2-10-2 at Homestead.

The Iowa Northern has been running the North Crew late out of Waterloo due to rail gang getting ready to put welded rail in around Butler/Shell Rock area. Here the north crew works north from Wate... (more)

The 14:00 North crew taxied to Waterloo for this small 21 car train out of Bryant Yard. Now the crew is few miles from Butler, where their 1st stop for the night is. The IANR has the rail laid out... (more)

After dropping off storage cars they slowly work there way back to the main. This F40 has had HP added for the Hawkeye Football train by a Genset in the back, so from a F40PH to a more or less GP4... (more)

Passing the Rockford Depot, Painted not restored.

Making a 7 car pickup before rolling south.

The Iowa Northern has 4 ex-Rock Island Depots along their line from Cedar Rapids to Manly. 3 out 4 are restored but this one at La Porte is still used by the section but is in rough shape.

Iowa Northern's North Crew head south with a small train of cars from the Manly Yard, and loads just picked up at Rock Falls. Due to yard congestion at Bryant Yard in Waterloo, this job would tie ... (more)

Iowa Northern's North Crew head south with a train full of cars off the CP interchange at Nora Springs. This job is passing one of the restore ex-Rock Island depot at Rockford. This job will work ... (more)

Iowa Northern's North Crew head south with a small train of cars from Manly Yard, and loads just picked up at Rock Falls. Due to yard congestion at Bryant Yard in Waterloo, this job would tie down... (more)

The Iowa Northern's North Crew is southbound today with a few cars out of Manly and Rock Falls. Here the trains passes the interchange tracks with the CP at Stoffer, about 2 miles north of Nora Sp... (more)

Cat powered Iowa Northern engine coupled to a similarly painted Erie Lackawanna Diner.

Iowa Northern's Garner Job pokes along at 10 mph thru the Iowa frozen countryside. The winter has been pretty mild this year, so many fields and fence lines aren't drifted in like years past. This... (more)

The Garner Job is coming into Garner from Forest City and is about to pickup loaded grain at Garner Co-op and head east towards Greene. Here the job has just crossed the DM&E Sheldon Sub as the br... (more)