The Iowa Northern smacked a large crane at the crossing at Mona Jct the day before. The accident put all 3 units and a bunch of coal cars in the ditch. The IANR was on their way to deliver coal at... (more)

A westbound CCP train crosses the Cedar River bridge in Cedar Falls on the way west towards Ft. Dodge and western Iowa. Only a couple more years were left for this short-time regional in 1993. The... (more)

In the late 1990s, the Iowa Northern Railway (IANR) was going through a difficult time and had leased a variety of locomotives to augment its fleet of GP20s and GP38s. A couple of Amtrak units wer... (more)

IANR GP38-2 3805 leads a short manifest West through Cedar Falls.

The Iowa Northern ran a passenger train from Manly to Cedar Rapids on Monday, 9/30. Mostly IANR management people rode the train maybe as a final farewell type trip. Everyone is still waiting on S... (more)

The Iowa Northern ran a passenger train from Manly to Cedar Rapids on Monday, 9/30. Mostly IANR management people rode the train maybe as a final farewell type trip. Everyone is still waiting on S... (more)

Iowa Northern BUWA crossing the Cedar River

With the possible last train to ride over the CFU lead coming late 2023, I looked thru what I had from this dead end line. This was once the mainline of the Rock Island from West Liberty to Manly.... (more)

The IANR had to use the normal 20:00 Butler crew to run the Oelwein Job the night before. The normal Oelwein Crew had to do some plowing. That now means the 8am Butler crew had to come to the CN o... (more)

UP suffered a major derailment on their Mason City Sub at Hampton, IA on Labor Day. While clean up takes place the Iowa Northern has taken a bunch of southbound detours from Manly to Cedar Rapids... (more)

The Cedar River has taken on a new look late January. The CN changed the job to go to 1 crew with no company vehicle. The job now is working without a defined schedule and also times when all the ... (more)

Only 10 minutes behind the CN local 571, the IANR's North Crew splits from the CN at Cedar Falls and head north on the Manly Sub next to a partly frozen Cedar River. The job is a healthy 88 cars t... (more)

The daily local from Waterloo to Ft. Dodge heads up hill out of Cedar Falls and away from the partly frozen Cedar River. This job takes cars off of 337 and anything in Waterloo and head west with ... (more)

Iowa Northern #3808 heads west through Cedar Falls, crossing over the Cedar River bridge.

This wasn't the main prize of the day, but L569 departed Waterloo ahead of the Iowa Northern Job we were after, so I did alittle drone work around Cedar Falls Junction. CN has been good lately of ... (more)