In a few hours the Hawkeye Express will be shuttling fans from Coralville to downtown Iowa City for the Penn State game.

636 snakes its way out of Rock Falls, Iowa after rolling onto the IANR at Plymouth Jct. After a crew change at Nora Springs, this train will pick up another SD40-2 to get up to the proper HPT rati... (more)

After waiting for the Iowa Northern to clear Plymouth Jct., DME 6054 makes the short but slow journey across the IANR rails to Nora Jct.

Iowa Northern 2493 at Waterloo.

The North Crew is now waiting on a backhoe and a cat to get this power unstuck near Nora Springs. The power can really get wedged in when you move thru drifts as seen by this photo. Doesnt take mu... (more)

Iowa Northern's North Crew works on digging out more snow before adding 5 engines to the 5 engines stuck in a decent snow drift south of Nora Springs. This part of railroading in the winter isnt m... (more)

It is hard to imagine that you can actually have 27,000 worth of horsepower and still be stuck. Here is the proof, 10 units and the rear 5 units can only be moved only a few inches back and forth.... (more)

A quartet of GP38-2s (3809, 3811, 3801 and 3804) lead Iowa Northern's North Crew pass a new siding under construction on the southeast side of Manly. Note the little cart of track supplies sitting... (more)

Hard to believe 6 Months ago there was 1'6" of water over the rail's here.

The Conductor on the Oelwein Job has a long cold ride into Waterloo. The Oelwein Job is shoving into Linden Ave before heading north on the CN industrial Lead. Due to the on going room problems at... (more)

North job with UP overhead cars passing the old BCR&N (RI) Depot that is now a museum and looming shadow of the elevator about to swallow it

Iowa Northern's assistant GM Bill MaGee works on changing out the headlight bulb on the 678. This will be the 1st trip out of Vinton so they are working on the finally touches before heading south... (more)

Trainmaster Jonah Sabin blows the horn on the 4003 as the Palo Express leaves Palo for the trip north to Vinton. The 678 on the rear is doing all the work during these trips. Track improvements on... (more)

One of the things I never get tired of doing being a railroader is looking back at my train as I roll thru the countryside. Today's look back is somewhat different since we are onboard the Palo Ho... (more)