Fog cleared just in time to get this photo on my "Bucket List" - train 853 off the Blackhawk Bridge at Lansing. With BNSF winning back the contract from the UP to haul coal to the Colum... (more)

A BNSF Dash 9 brings up the rear of empty coal train E PEKNAM as it heads west through Burlington, Iowa and snakes its way between the old buildings here as it heads away from the Mississippi Rive... (more)

An empty Dyersville Big River ethanol train pulls out of the siding at Dyersville after meeting 338. The crew is only 2 miles from the train's destination. They cross the North Fork of the Maquoke... (more)

The California Zephyr blast east enroute for Chicago. The next stop is at Osceola about 20 miles ahead. They pass the small town of Murray on the BNSF Ottumwa Sub in southern Iowa.

The 4th load of 2022 bound for Rush Tower, MO, rolls pass the BNSF depot in Chariton on the BNSF Ottumwa Sub. The train just got done with some heavy lifting up Whitebreast Hill just west of here,... (more)

The 51st load of 2022 bound for Monroe, MI, for Detroit Edison, rolls thru the town of Chariton in southern Iowa. The train just got done with some heavy lifting up Whitebreast Hill, and now takes... (more)

A loaded coal train works across southern Iowa on the Ottumwa Sub. The train eases thru the town of Chariton at MP 334. Here train passes the Lucas County Veterans Memorial Park. The city has done... (more)

A loaded coal train rolls around the mile long curve near Halpin in southern Iowa. Soon the 3 motors (2x1) will down to their knees as they fight the 1.2% grade into Albia on main #2. There is 3 c... (more)

An empty coal train is waiting for a BNSF crew to come get it and start the trip back to Wyoming. The train is parked at the ISU Generating Station loop outside of Chillicothe, IA, in southern Iow... (more)

A trio of BNSF EMD's get on the move as they depart the yard in Eddyville, Iowa with the local L CHI664 for an evening run to Galesburg. The set of GE's parked here will be used for a unit distill... (more)

CN's rather elusive Council Bluffs local heads west through the broad curve at Woodbine with a nice pair of former Oakway SD60s leading. Union Pacific's Boone Subdivision can be seen in the backgr... (more)

Canadian Pacific's St. Paul to Kansas City manifest freight 260 cruises south across curved trestle in Foster, Iowa. This is the middle bridge of the three trestles that make up the "Foster B... (more)

The IAIS 703 and 715 do some switching around the south end of their Council Bluffs railyard.

Right across the Missouri River from Omaha, NE is a huge Union Pacific freight yard. I took the drone up to try and get all or most of it in one shot. In this shot, 4 UP locomotives are getting ... (more)

After completing its station stop in Ottumwa, Iowa, Amtrak's California Zephyr throttles up and continues west into the setting sun. On the point of this day's train is P42DC 160, painted for the ... (more)