With a CN SD75I leading the charge, loaded windmill blade train BNSF U CNIONL1 09A snakes its way through the crossover on the east side of Osceola, Iowa as it heads west into the setting sun.

Brand new Siemens ACS-64 is headed East on the California Zephyr.

Call this the Osceola Strikeout. I came down to the Ottumwa Sub from Des Moines for four hours. Not a single westbound train passed, and only one eastbound had a rear-facing DPU that resembled som... (more)

Almost six and one-half years after the BN merger, 40 foot, friction bearing equipped Chinese Red boxcar 37743 rests on the house track behind the Osceola passenger station. The car was mint with... (more)

A big consist of AC power leads a westbound manifest on Main One a few miles east of Osceola, Iowa.

Remote control unit BNSF 8887 pushes an eastbound coal train near Osceola, IA. BNSF assigns just two SD70MACs, one on each end, to many coal trains on the Creston Sub.

Amtrak 5, the California Zephyr pauses at Osceola, IA.