IAIS 700 & 516 charging their train for Blue Island up the hill in Mokena.

SIBI charging up and through New Lenox with SIBI on an early Wednesday morning.

IAIS 700 and 516 bringing SIBI across the diamond at Joliet.

A CSX crew working on the diamonds takes a brief break to allow an Iowa Interstate train, crossing the Calumet Sag Channel on the Baltimore & Ohio Chicago Terminal (also known as the Indiana Harbo... (more)

Little engine that could.. IAIS GP38-2 number 700 running Long Hood First drags IAIS GEVO 518 and a massive string of hoppers back through Moline, IL by a city relic, the old Williams White & Co. ... (more)

As Chicagoland preps for the Christmas weekend, IAIS provides a Christmas present of their own. A GP38 & the 516 heritage locomotive on the morning eastbound into Blue Island, seen here passing th... (more)

A CSX crew working on the diamonds takes a brief break to allow an Iowa Interstate train, crossing the Calumet Sag Channel on the Baltimore & Ohio Chicago Terminal (also known as the Indiana Harbo... (more)

IAIS 700 and 711 pull two IAIS business cars through the Hwy 6 grade crossing outside of West Liberty, IA. They are headed for Peoria, IL where the Board of Directors excursion will occur the next... (more)

IAIS 700 brings the Iowa Interstate Business Train into Oxford Iowa deadheading towards Peoria Illinois for the railroads annual Board of Directors Special the next day. The BOD Train will then ru... (more)

IAIS 700 arrives back at the South Amana yard with the 6988 and train.

IAIS 700 leads 6988 and train past the West Liberty depot

IAIS 700, 6988 and train depart Wilton, headed for the South Amana yard.

It's 2:16 PM; the 6988 and train arrive back in Wilton, pulled by IAIS 700. This marks the end of a successful day of excursions. After a final "photo run-by" the 700 will pull 6988, train and cre... (more)

Backing their train down the Iowa Interstate’s line and across the Calumet Sag Channel and through one of the five through truss bridges (four of which are still in service) that span the channe... (more)

IAIS 700 pulls the 1:30PM Wilton excursion back to town, seen here from the porch of the Hawkeye business car.