Iowa Northern's North Crew heads south with 14 cars of grain bound for Cedar Rapids, IA. This crew will pickup more cars enroute to Waterloo where the cars will be turned over to the South Crew. H... (more)

Iowa Northern's North Crew heads south with 14 cars of grain bound for Cedar Rapids, IA. The crew rolls along at 10 mph thru Marble Rock, 10 miles north of Greene. The North Crew does work between... (more)

Iowa Northern's North Crew heads south with 14 cars of grain bound for Cedar Rapids, IA. This crew will pickup more cars enroute to Waterloo where the cars will be turned over to the South Crew. N... (more)

North Crew is shoving back to their train at Stouffer after doing all their work at Nora Springs. The train is passing old ex-Rock Island ABS signals. These abandoned signals litter the Iowa North... (more)

The North Crew is finishing up all their work at Nora and is now shoving back 2 miles to Stoffer to grab the rest of their train. The 4 units of the North Crew is crossing the DM&E's Mason City Su... (more)

The North Crew has just finished their air test at Greene on the grain they picked up. Now they are departing south with the next stop at Butler Yard, near Shell Rock. This crew will run south all... (more)

Iowa Northern 3811 leans to the left as it hits a low spot in the track north of Nora Springs. Traffic on the Iowa Northern has grown significantly with the boom in ethanol production.

As they say, some parts of Iowa are extremely flat.

A southbound Iowa Northern freight makes its way past some assorted industrial supplies in Clarksville, IA.

The Oelwein Job is making a Oelwein turn today to deliver and pull cars at Transco car repair shop at Oelwein, IA and switch the ethanol plant at Fairbanks, IA. The job is seen here climbing the h... (more)

The Oelwein Job is northbound as they pass thru Armour on the east side of Waterloo. The station sign dates back to the Chicago Great Western days. This track is still owned by the UP between Wate... (more)

7 GP38's and 33 distiller grain cars for the UP makeup the northbound trip into Manly for the North Crew. Seen here pulling into Yard Limits the crew will setout the distiller grain and pickup gra... (more)

The North Crew has just stop at the diamond with IC&E at Plymouth Jct. The Iowa Northern rounded up 7 geeps to run up to Manly for a Cedar Falls coal train coming from the UP. This is the northbou... (more)