With the official takeover date of March 1, 2025, I have been out trying to shoot the Iowa Northern as the CN makes changes to the railroad. Job changes came first in March, and now power changes ... (more)

With the official takeover date of March 1, 2025, I have been out trying to shoot the Iowa Northern as the CN makes changes to the railroad. Job changes came first in March, and now power changes ... (more)

With the official takeover date of March 1, 2025, I have been out trying to shoot the Iowa Northern as the CN makes changes to the railroad. Job changes came first in March, and now power changes ... (more)

Back in 2024, the daily Butler to Waterloo local (BUWA) began the day switching cars out on the south end of Butler. The crew would have over 3 hours of work before heading south with cars for the... (more)

The Manly Switcher is using the MABU's power to switch out the yard at Manly. IANR has enough business to base a switcher here back in 2024.

The Iowa Northern ran a CN turnout out of Butler to deliver a bunch of cars for the CN. The crew now picks up the few cars the CN had ready for them. Rare sight at Waterloo today as tons of power ... (more)

The Manly to Butler job slows for the permanent 10mph slow through Greene. The job is hefty today with over 10K. Lots of grain from Manly and oats from the CPKC bound for Quaker Oats. Once to Butl... (more)

The official takeover date was somewhat around March 1st for CN. Now this week, things are slowly starting to take off, and organization is beginning. I saw the Manly to Butler was southbound ... (more)

Code Blue. With an air temperature hovering around -3, Iowa Northern train BUWA (Butler to Waterloo) is slowly making its way south through the small town of Shell Rock, Iowa. IANR 451, 395... (more)

An oddball set of power trundles through the Iowa Countryside. Locals have no idea how much this railroad provided a competitive advantage to agricultural shippers... and by proxy, their own crop... (more)

Iowa Northern's Butler to Waterloo job backs out of the CN yard at Waterloo after a pickup and setout. This job normally goes to work at 9am and works south handling all the traffic from Butler an... (more)

IANR 451 sits waiting, tied down at the boat ramp just north of UP's North Yard. Taken on the IANR Cedar Rapids Subdivision on 8/11/23.

Conductor JWill takes IANR's Oelwein turn northbound just outside of Dunkerton, IA at E Big Rock Rd on ex-CGW trackage on the D&W Railroad's Oelwein Subdivision (operated by IANR).

The IANR had to use the normal 20:00 Butler crew to run the Oelwein Job the night before. The normal Oelwein Crew had to do some plowing. That now means the 8am Butler crew had to come to the CN o... (more)

IANR company special (school reunion) is arriving in Manly and will jump on UP for a few blocks to reach their own yard. Curious how CN will utilize these trackage rights, say, to access the Twin... (more)