The 1st crew for this Mason City to Spencer B41 local spent all night switching in Mason and building 111 car outbound train. Then B42 cabbed in from Spencer at 7am to take the train west. Almost ... (more)

The Garner Job is coming into Garner from Forest City and is about to pickup loaded grain at Garner Co-op and head east towards Greene. Here the job has just crossed the DM&E Sheldon Sub as the br... (more)

Iowa Northern's Garner Job is about to start spotting empties at Garner, so the conductor lines the gates for IANR movement over the DM&E's Sheldon Sub. This is the 1st train since spring on this ... (more)

Iowa Northern's 1st revenue for the Garner Sub is about to step on to the new property. The conductor has lined the switch into the transfer track off the DM&E. The Iowa Northern will use trackage... (more)

Iowa Northern's 1st train for the new Garner Sub has arrived at Garner off the trackage rights over the DM&E. Here the crew spots 25 empites for the Garner Elevator. IANR acquired this new line fr... (more)

Winging back the drifts is a never ending battle this year and slow, In deep snow 1 or 2 MPH is about all they need to do. The wind is mostly out of the North so more ends up on the north side and... (more)

Hard telling how many years this signal has protected the diamond at Garner but the final days were closing in on November 22. On December 5th this signal was retired.

This semaphore distant signal protects ICE's crossing of the UP's Ft Dodge sub at Garner. Both eastbound and westbound distant signals were retired on 12/05/06. Now a plain yellow light distant si... (more)