IAIS 517 & 510 lead XCRSA 14 (CRCB, coal empties for the BNSF in Council Bluffs, IA) southbound through Fairfax, IA. This was IAIS 517's first time leading a revenue freight after being delivered ... (more)

Union Pacific Intermodal , Eastbound at sunset with 4 units leading. Fairfax Iowa UP line.

Iowa Interstate turn job rolls throug Fairfax Iowa to the Union Pacific interchange at sunset

An empty coal train out of Weston, WI, for Wisconsin Public Service, hammers west on the Clinton Sub. The 2x1 empty train has just passed CPA 090 at Fairfax on the westside of Cedar Rapids. The tr... (more)

CRSA has just finished its work at the CIC Smith Dows Yard a departs Cedar Rapids with cars for South Amana

UP 7486 leads a WB ethanol over the grade out of Fairfax, Iowa. The crew will stop the rear of the train at the Linn/Benton grade crossing and make a back up movement to pick up the conductor (cur... (more)

Iowa Interstate 513 sporting its fine Rock Island livery pulls IAIS train CRSA out of Fairfax starting their 20 odd mile journey back to the Iowa Interstate's South Amana Yard.

While this may look like two GE's racing, the manifest is actually stopped, waiting for two Z trains (higher priority) to get around.

UP 8712 leads a morning stacker around the curve west of Benton/Linn Rd, heading towards Fairfax, IA.

A few days ago a blizzard hit Central and Eastern Iowa leaving the entire area covered in another blanket of snow making drifts of 3ft+. With the CRANDIC attempting to plow the line themselves and... (more)

An extra Iowa Interstate job from the CRANDIC interchange in Cedar Rapids departs Fairfax with manifest and empty coal buckets bound for the BNSF in Council Bluffs.

An Iowa Interstate coal extra from the Norfolk Southern in Peoria slowly approaches its final destination of the CRANDIC interchange in Cedar Rapids.

Iowa Interstate's Extra South Amana Switcher crew brings CIC cars south to South Amana with power from the PECR coal train that they brought up a few hours prior.

The Iowa Football season has ended and the Hawkeye Express heads back to Waterloo, Iowa vis the CRANDIC Amana line.

IAIS 500 leads NS 2578 on a unit coal train heading for the ADM in SW Cedar Rapids.