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)

The Palo Holiday Express rolls north towards Vinton with roughly 900 people out to help a good cause. The Iowa Northern donate people and equipment today to help out flood relief in the Palo area ... (more)

The Palo Holiday Express is pulling back into Palo after making their 1st round trip to Vinton and back. Trainmaster Donny Rehlander is about to drop off to spot the train on the make shift platfo... (more)

Palo flood relief train, All runs sold out at $12.00 a ride. Not bad for a 30 Minute ride. A lot of kid's had fun.

Palo flood relief train, All runs sold out at $12.00 a ride

Ex-Rock Island track, old Rock Island depot, and a F40 painted in Rock Island, makes for a small trip back to the days. The Rock never had this type of equipment, but still cool for a small time r... (more)

The Iowa Northern's Palo Express is rolling along south of Washburn with the deadhead move to Palo. The IANR is running flood relief trips tomorrow between Palo and Vinton to raise money to help w... (more)

The Iowa Northern's Palo Express has just departed the roundhouse at Bryant Yard for the deadhead trip to Palo for tomorrow's event. The train is passing the South Crew's power that will head out ... (more)

The Oelwein Job has just begun their day at Fairbank. They will get 31 cars together for the trip down to Waterloo. Here they are moving some cars for the ethanol plant before digging out more eth... (more)

The south crew is down to a crawl as they climb out of the Cedar River near 42nd St in northern Cedar Rapids. Engineer Bob Helling is back try to keep the 1792 running to make it over the grade. T... (more)

The South Crew rolls thru the country side between La Porte and Mt Auburn. This end of the railroad was normally nocturnal until mid-June when the floods took out the Waterloo Cedar River bridge c... (more)

The Oelwein job is heading back north towards Oelwein at sunset. This crew went to work at noon at Fairbank and is making a Waterloo turn. At Waterloo they delivered cars to the CN and also left c... (more)

The North Crew slowly makes their way south towards Waterloo. This job had almost 100 cars today out of Nora Springs. This end is seeing all the traffic due to bridge still out in Waterloo due to ... (more)