I was attending a summer school workshop at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, IA back in June of 1994. As with many of my pre-internet trip, I arrived with zero knowledge of what the local rail... (more)

Double header freight heading east at sunrise.

With the Rock Island heritage leading a seven unit consist, the Iowa Interstate's BICB gets on the move out of Iowa City, Iowa after holding to meet the 6988 steam special. The train is crossing o... (more)

IAIS 153, NS 6989, & 9903 lead an empty coal train from ADM in Cedar Rapids, also known as CRPE, eastbound in the Lucas area of Iowa City. This ended up being one of, if not the last NS run throug... (more)

Both of IAIS's Chinese QJ's are heading back to Newton after a weekend of flood relief special runs.

IAIS FRA GEO 17 - the FRA GEO train inspects IAIS rails over the Iowa River, following the IAIS SSAPE.

IAIS 6988 crosses the Iowa River on the way to Wilton, IA

The Milwaukee turn gets out of the way as CRandIC job passes. Milw 552 was built as an SD7, then rebuilt to SD10 following wreck in 1970s.

IAIS QJ 6988 crosses the Iowa River at Iowa City.

With time quickly running out on it's boiler certification, Iowa Interstate QJ steam locomotive 6988 spent the weekend running fire department fundraising excursions for the Oxford and Wilton fire... (more)

IAIS 707 leads XSASW 15 back towards Iowa City from Cascade (West Liberty) after working there and Downey.

IAIS 509 leads BICB-28 over the Iowa River in Iowa City, IA.

The daily BICB heads west through Iowa City nearing sunset. The train had a pretty bad flat spot several cars back, which required the train to stop for several minutes making us almost miss it i... (more)

Over the past few weeks the usual east and west trains on the IAIS have been running on a new schedule to accommodate a tie project going on on the Iowa City Subdivision making for nice afternoon ... (more)

CRANDIC Job 4 pulls Stutsman cars down Maiden Lane in Iowa City. CIC 132 and slug 126 is the last MP15 slug set that CRANDIC has active, as the CIC mainly uses the L4-1500XDs built by Relco for jo... (more)