UP's MPRCB train swings the curve at Wheatland, Iowa behind a pair of UP Heritage units.

UP 1995 leads the Council Bluffs junk freight at Nelson, Illinois.

BNSF 6103 hauls empties out to Graham, to grab the Ottumwa Subdivision and continue westbound to the PRB coal fields.

New GEVO BNSF 6103 leads three other new units into Galesburg, Illinois with empty coal hoppers.

"Yah-Der-Ehe!" Three Canadian Pacific units, with an SD-40-2F on the point, lead a Northtown-St. Louis grain movement westbound at Abingdon, Illinois.

Four new GEVOs pass under an ex-CB&Q signal bridge westbound north of Wataga with coal empties.

UP's Council Bluffs manifest gets ready to land at Clinton for a crew change to continue across Iowa.

UP's "MPRCB" train hustles through Malone, Iowa behind UP heritage units 1988 & 1982.

Rack train "ASPKC" sits in the darkness at the Bettendorf, Iowa siding waiting to meet an MKCSP train just out of Nahant Yard.

ICE's "MKCSP" manifest readies to depart West Dav Yard.

ICE SD-40-2 6432 stands in as the Nahant Switcher on a clear Iowa night.

UP symbol MPRCB passes under US Highway 30 at Union Grove, Illinois with UP 1995 in charge.

UP 1995 passes through Morrison, Illinois westbound with the Council Bluffs manifest.

The QJs haul a westbound manifest over the Cedar River Bridge at Moscow, Iowa.

QJs 6988 & 7081 hammer through Atalissa, Iowa with a westbound Iowa Interstate freight.