With winter in full force, Iowa doesn't see alot of the newer AC locomotives. That stuff tends to stay on the busier mainlines for the AC/DP needs. This AC did make it out here to Iowa on X337 and... (more)

With winter in full force, Iowa doesn't see alot of the newer AC locomotives. That stuff tends to stay on the busier mainlines for the AC/DP needs. This AC did make it out here to Iowa on X337 and... (more)

Loaded ethanol train off the Iowa Northern at Waterloo works east on the Dubuque Sub. Here the train tops the grade thru the old station at Beth. This old wooden overpass on the Dubuque Sub has be... (more)

A loaded grain train from western Iowa crosses Buffalo Creek just east of Winthrop. This is one of the few larger wood bridges left on the CN in Iowa. The train is working east on the Dubuque Sub ... (more)

A loaded ethanol train out of western Iowa fights the grade between Winthrop and Masonville. A nice leader heads up this train bound for interchange with the NS in Chicago. The train is currently ... (more)

With a outside air temp of -18 degrees...the eastbound daily freight from Waterloo to Kirk Yard pushes thru some small drifts by the old Beth Siding. The train is running behind today as a massive... (more)

The daily Waterloo to Chicago freight train is already 35 miles into their trip out of Waterloo. Today the train is chasing down a U704 that is 15 miles ahead of them. An eastbound out of Waterloo... (more)

A pair of CSX SD40's was team up with another CSX unit to power this unit ethanol train out of Waterloo. The train now heads east towards Chicago where it will interchange to the CSX for points ea... (more)

The U703 picked up power at Manchester while meeting 2 eastbound trains. The head 2 NS units are off a U705 that spotted Dyersville. The U703 was madeup of the rear 2 CSX motors and the train. See... (more)

GE has begun its delivery of the new Tier 4 GEVO's to CN. The new AC's will be numbered in the 3000's series and M337 has one of the brand new units leading on the way to Waterloo. The train is pa... (more)

The engineer on the daily Kirk Yard, IN, to Waterloo, IA, manifest train climbs back on his unit after giving M338 a rollby at West Beth. M337 is very late tonight and ended up meeting it's counte... (more)

Only a couple weeks old, these new GEVO's 2946/2950, power a good size M337 into the siding at Beth for a meet with a U704. Over 8000 feet of train can be seen as there is 7 miles of the Dubuque S... (more)

An extra Hawthorne Yard to Waterloo manifest train has just passed over the east switch at Beth Siding. The town of Masonville can be seen in the background. These extras are ran when traffic for ... (more)

The ADM shuttle grain train is eastbound bound for the ADM plant in Cedar Rapids, IA. This train has 76 cars of corn that was loaded at the elevator at Yetter, IA, on CN's Omaha Sub. Here the trai... (more)

The ADM shuttle grain train is eastbound bound for the ADM plant in Cedar Rapids, IA. This train has 76 cars of corn that was loaded at the elevator at Yetter, IA, on CN's Omaha Sub. Here the trai... (more)