It's a chilly February morning in Avery, Iowa as a BNSF ES44AC and SD70ACe lead eastbound coal loads past frozen farm fields. This is one of the sections of split main on the Ottumwa Subdivision, ... (more)

Loaded BNSF coal train C BTMCLS0 77A cruises through Avery, Iowa as it makes its trip from the Powder River Basin's Black Thunder Mine to the Shawnee Fossil Plant in Kentucky. One of BNSF's SD70MA... (more)

A trio of BNSF GE's power the westbound Galesburg to Lincoln manifest freight as it rolls underneath the wooden bridge that carries 695th Avenue over the BNSF Ottumwa Subdivision outside of Avery,... (more)

A pair of SD70ACe's lead a loaded coal train east outside of Avery, Iowa in the first minutes of morning sun, meeting a westbound empty coal train here at the Eddyville Spur connection.

A loaded BNSF coal train rolls east in the morning sun just outside of Avery, Iowa. This is one of the locations where the double track Ottumwa Sub runs of separate grades between Maxon and the ea... (more)

The sun has just risen over the hills on the morning of December 1st, and the first minutes of light shine on BNSF ES44AC 6236 as it brings up the rear of a loaded westbound coal train heading bac... (more)

Amtrak's Number 6 crosses Monroe County Road T-55, just east of Avery, Iowa.