UP 7993 leads an afternoon stacker around the curves west of Watkins, IA.
UP 7941 leads a west bound intermodal by a flooded Iowa soybean field. Iowa's seen a pretty rough year in 2020. June left it's mark with flooding, which destroyed many fields along creeks and ... (more)
In true large barge fashion, this Elkhart, IN, (off the NS) to North Platte, NE, freight rumbles west with around 10,000 feet of manifest junk for NP. The train seen here passing thru CP 100 at Wa... (more)
Something different today... the ZG2LT that I see alot in Iowa in the afternoons, is normally a monster stack train that is DP-ed. Today ZG2LT is a short conventional hotshot that is seen here bla... (more)
An 70ACe pushes on the back of this empty coal train as they work thru central Iowa on the UP's North Platte to Chicago corridor. The train is 109 miles west of Clinton as they pass thru the small... (more)
Located in southeastern Benton County, this sleepy little town of 118 people sits along the busy UP double main thru Iowa. The Clinton Sub is part of the mainline that connects North Platte and Ch... (more)
Alot of the UP SD70's are being put into storage with the down turn in business in 2016. Few can still be found on drag freights and locals. Here the Clinton to Boone junk/local freight hammers th... (more)
A 1x1 auto train from the IHB at Gibson Yard, IN, bound for North Platte, NE, blast thru CPU 100 at Watkins. The train is about 20 mile west of Cedar Rapids as it makes its way thru central Iowa o... (more)
Winter Storm Kayla is hitting Iowa hard. Western Iowa is being hit especially hard with heavy snow and wind. In eastern Iowa there isn't much snow, but still strong northwest winds are creating so... (more)