Oelwein job making a run to ShellRock with the UP overhead.

The Oelwein Job heads back south to Waterloo with a good size train. Today's train is made up of 28 cars for the CN out of Fairbank and Dunkerton and 41 cars for the UP at Manly out of Oelwein and... (more)

With a train that looks like a UP train instead of an IANR train, the Oelwein Job heads across the CN towards Cedar Falls Jct. This crew is heading up to Butler siding to put all the Transco cars ... (more)

The Oelwein Job has just setout their UP traffic at the north end of Linden Yard (also called Highland Yard) in Waterloo. Once a mainline between Oelwein, IA and Kansas City, MO, this 90 pound rai... (more)

The Oelwein Job has cutoff from their train to go into the yard at Linden to pickup the UP overhead traffic. UP has a switch job based in Waterloo that services customers in Waterloo's Northeast S... (more)

With 61 loads in tow the Oelwein Job nows head for Waterloo in the late afternoon. This job went to work in Waterloo today at 11am and made a Fairbank turn. Somedays this job will run all the way ... (more)

With 26 DDG cars and 10 ethanol cars out of Fairbank, the Oelwein Job is heading back south now. This job will stop at Dunkerton and pickup 25 loads of grain before heading into Waterloo. With all... (more)

The Oelwein Job is passing one of the few old Chicago Great Western signs still left along this route. This is ex-CGW trackage between Oelwein, IA and Kansas City, MO, but ownly a handful of milea... (more)

The Oelwein Job heads back to Waterloo with 8 cars out of the ethanol plant at Fairbanks. The signs around the train tell a tale of history. The 341 sign on the pole to the right is an old CNW mil... (more)

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)

IANR 3807 and its very short train rock and roll over UP's poorly maintained line northbound out of town.

IANR 3807 and its very short train rock and roll over UP's poorly maintained line northbound out of town.

Oelwein's CGW museum, Iowa Northern's Oelwein Job making its run back to Waterloo,Ia