When the Iron Road Railway (IRR) took over the Iowa Northern in 1994, some of their power also came to the property. These units for sister companies BAR and CDAC were rebuilt at National Railway ... (more)

Poking along at 10 mph, this load ethanol train out of Fairbank, IA, heads north towards the DM&E at Nora Springs. The DM&E power ran thru to the Iowa Northern so the IANR could gather up the trai... (more)

The North Crew is rolling along south of Packard. The next stop is Clarksville to pickup grain. The train has 43 cars of ethanol/DDG empties off the UP at Manly that goes back to Fairbank. The IAN... (more)

The North Crew has an empty potash train out of Waterloo as they head north. This is normal duties for the North Crew to move their train and potash trains when they showed up from the UP at Manly... (more)

With a hard winter and a pretty wet spring, the Iowa rivers and creeks have started to rise the past week as seen by the flooding in the fields south of Packard. The North Crew is about a mile fro... (more)

A CFU empty coal train makes its way back north towards Manly, IA. This train was emptied at Cedar Falls, IA and will go back to the UP at Manly. These coal trains have been loading in mines in So... (more)