CBFX 1595 leads a Iowa Southern train on the outskirts of Albia, as it heads south.

The Iowa Southern Railway's local job makes its way south out of Albia, Iowa where it picked up interchange with BNSF and heads towards Moravia. An SW1500 and GP7 lead the train as it crosses over... (more)

The Wabash had a mainline that ran to Des Moines from Moberly at one time. The NS abandoned this trackage back in 1993. Today the Iowa Sothern operates about 25 miles of this trackage between Moul... (more)

After completing work in Albia, Iowa at the BNSF interchange and Wabtec's Relco facility, the Iowa Southern's local heads south from town behind a single leased SW1500, approaching the crossing wi... (more)

A leased CBFX SW1500 leads the southbound Iowa Southern Railway train as it brings interchange cars out of Albia, Iowa and rolls past the Relco facility, now owned by Wabtec, on the south side of ... (more)

After working the BNSF interchange the day before and then arranging outbounds from Relco, the Iowa Southern Railway departs from Albia, Iowa and slowly rolls along weedy track behind a CBFX SW150... (more)

The Iowa Southern Railway crew has just arrived in Albia, Iowa and fires up the locomotives, a SW1500 and GP7, for the days work. The crew will head north to the BNSF interchange to swap cars, th... (more)