Sunday's night B-41 local left Mason City around 2am with a wedge plow and 69 cars for the Sheldon Sub. Multiple derailments of the plow at iced over crossing changed the plans around noon. The pl... (more)
It does sometimes take an army of people to get a train across the railroad in the wintertime. The conductor pitches in as these 4 guys clean the switch at Ag Processing Inc. east of Algona. The c... (more)
As the sun set on another winter day in Iowa, the Spencer local crawls along at 10 mph with a Hartley ethanol train for Chicago. This is the 1st train thru here for the past 24 hours, so these 4 4... (more)
The Spencer day job has a Hartley ethanol train as they plow east out of Algona. This railroad is mostly 10 mph, so it is slow going pushing thru the drifts out here. This train will turn into a E... (more)
The Jordan Dicther is shoving back snow drifts west of Mason City on their way west towards Spencer. Here the ditcher is in one of the bigger drifts between Sexton and Algona. With most of the rai... (more)
