Early morning light makes it hard to shoot westbounds on the Ottumwa Sub. A little section west of Ottumwa allows for some shooting as the tracks run a hard northwest. Here an empty takes their ti... (more)
The California Zephyr races west on the BNSF Ottumwa Sub with the next station at Osceola. The train has just departed Ottumwa and is close to the town of Chillicothe in southern Iowa.
The Eddyville local tends to depart off the Cargill Spur around 17:00-19:00. The job then works towards Burlington and onto Galesburg. It can get some interesting power that isn't just standard GE... (more)
Unfortunately the CP passenger train was the hottest thing around Ottumwa, so the BNSF held trains and delayed Amtrak even further into Ottumwa. Here the California Zephyr is down about 3'-41"... (more)
In the modern PTC era, getting foreign power to lead right now was harder to do on the BNSF in spots thru mid-2020. This loaded wind mill train has a lone CN Dash 8 for power. The 6700 foot train ... (more)
Hard to believe that these Dash 8's were built in 1990-1992 for high speed intermodal trains for the Santa Fe. Now days alot of them are off the BNSF roster or in local service. Far away from the ... (more)
2 AC units and a DC unit move this coal load east just west of Ottumwa along the Des Moines River.
Following Amtrak out of CTC Maxon this coal heads east along the Des Moines River west of Ottumwa.
