UP 5713 brings a westbound manifest down the Boyer River valley outside of Logan, IA.

Westbound stacks snake their way through Logan.

A "Z" train aproaches Missouri Valley shortly after the second main track was added after the C&NW was acquired by Union Pacific.

UP train STCSZ is by Logan. I always thought that these lightning striped Dash9's always looked best from this angle.

UP 6788 West cruises down the Boyer River valley on an early spring afternoon. The former C&NW line, single tracked for many years, was soon restored to two main tracks after UP took ownership.

Through the bleak landscape of a winter afternoon, UP 8305 leads a former MKT SD40-2 with a North Platte-bound manifest, about to pass beneath US Route 30 in Logan, IA. Ektachrome.

Former C&NW SD40-2 No. 6817 now wears a UP shield as it leads another former C&NW SD down the Boyer River valley, about to pass beneath the US 30 overhead bridge in Logan, IA. Only recently had th... (more)

UP 4014 passes under the Canadian National near Logan Iowa.

For a time in the late 1990's, UP ran 5-packs of SD40-2R's on high priority trains. On the point of this consist is UP3101 which was just released from the paint shop a few weeks before. This uni... (more)

Westbound as viewed from the US30 overpass. The second main track here that was torn out a few decades earlier was relaid ain the late 1990's.

"Is this heaven?" Shoeless Joe might not mistake Logan for heaven since the Field of Dreams is on the other side of the state, but Iowa served up a heavenly afternoon for me as I... (more)

A single EMD leads an autorack train through the verdant Boyer River valley of western Iowa. In just a few minutes they will slow for a crew change at Missouri Valley before continuing west into ... (more)

With the 1993 midwestern flood wreaking havoc on many carriers, the railroads are doing their best to keep traffic moving via detours on the remaining lines still above water. The Santa Fe is also... (more)

At the height of the 1993 midwestern flooding many railroads are under water and scrambling to find detour routes to maintain service. At the time, the Chicago & NorthWestern is one of the few (if... (more)

7275 passes through the wide open farmlands of western Iowa.