Once Santa Fe cantilever and overhead signal bridges littered the Marceline Sub between Fort Madison and Eton, MO, like what was once here. Nowadays standard GE power and new signals have really k... (more)

The Cedar River needed the CN 5409 for horsepower, so it didn't go on 338 for Dubuque. It was needed due to tonnage on an 80-car L575. The Cedar River died on the Osage Sub Friday with no 2nd crew... (more)

LTB20 crosses the Winnebago River just outside of Mason City.

The IAIS Des Moines switcher with its one load of lumber for Frontier Forests Products passes over the mostly frozen Walnut Creek.

LNM34 heading North across one of the many wooden trestles that still remain on the Oskaloosa Branch in Central Iowa.

Photo freigh on the Boone High Bridge

The Railroading Heritage of Midwest America organization operated two days of excursions with restored DDA40X "Centennial" locomotive #6936, with Iowa Interstate providing ES44AC #513 fo... (more)

The spring tour of the CN's Geo Train to the Iowa Zone has some extra miles added to it for the 1st time. The car traveled the IANR property to inspect what they have. The job ran the Dubuque and ... (more)

Unfortunately, I saw and was given bad info, so I missed the 4100 leading L565 back in May 2025. The next day we made chase with it trailing the CN 2285. Still, a merger is consistent, and the 228... (more)

The Royal Canadian business train crosses Duck Creek as it continues its journey to Kansas City to pick up executives.

UP 6936 and IAIS 513 leads "The Quad Cities Rocket" train across the Iowa River

A pair of SD60s on the Cedar River got me out for a midday chase southbound on the Osage Sub. This job most days runs with 1 unit. The past couple of weeks in October 2024, traffic had been on the... (more)

The Final Nail In The Coffin For Iowa Northern. Back on January 30, 2024, Canadian National Railroad and the Iowa Northern Railroad filed an application seeking approval from the STB (Unite... (more)

CP 6644 leading its train North for Nahant at track speed across a channel from the Mississippi River.

DAIR 2511 & 2 other units lead a freight from Hudson, SD across the Big Sioux River. Here they cross over from the state of South Dakota and into Iowa.