These hearty Iowa cattle pay no attention to the coal empty as it glides to a stop east of Bertram, IA. The temperature was in the single digits and the wind was howling, making the wind chills w... (more)

CIC 111 heads up Job 2 on its way south from Cedar Rapids to Iowa City.

AHAKS (A-Hawks as the locals refer to it) speeds south on the Spine Line with 20 loads of coal for Des Moines on the head end.

UP 9030 brings a manifest eastward into the morning light.

A welded rail train heads south towards Lincoln past the elevators in Greenwood.

BNSF 9875 charges westbound through Emerald on its way back to the Basin.

Two brand new, sequentially numbered C44ACCTE’s power M-ELNP (Elkhart, IN - North Platte) through Ames, IA.

L567 goes through the street corner of Rogers, Iowa on its way south to Cedar Rapids.

Final Run of Crandic Job 2, the road job from Cedar Rapids to Iowa City.

UP 8298 leads a westbound empty hopper train through Ogden and it's trademark blue and white striped water tower.

UP 4662 leads what is obviously a CSX-bound stacker over Squaw Creek.

An Iowa Interstate empty coal train rumbles through Fairfax, IA on its way south on the Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railway mainline. The train started out in Cedar Rapids and will be interchanged... (more)

A-HAKS 13/14 makes it's way south this afternoon. Half of this train is a day late after problems up north. The two trains were combined and sent on their way. Soo 2041, a bandit, was in the co... (more)

Marking the start of the last week of CRANDIC Job 2, CIC 114 leads the train up Fairfax Hill. Iowa Interstate will take over the daily train from Cedar Rapids to Iowa City effective August 1st.

CIC 114 leads Job 2 south towards the Amana Colonies on its nightly journey to Iowa City from Cedar Rapids.