Just a few minutes after sunset on a frigid January evening, a Cedar Rapids & Iowa City Railroad local is working customers in one of the industrial parks south of downtown. The railroad has a uni... (more)

IC 3107, 6200, & GTW 4900 scurry past the landmark is the rather flashy, Rick's Auto Sales lot car-topped signage. Tonight, the IC 3107 leads the charge in front of the Cedar Rapids to Manchester,... (more)

UP's Big Boy excursion train crosses the Cedar River minutes before arriving at its overnight stay in Beverly Yard.

On September 5, 2022, a derailment, bridge collapse and subsequent liquid asphalt spill over Spring Creek near Hampton, Iowa caused several Union Pacific trains to detour across Iowa Northern trac... (more)

CNW 6888 leads a Falcon across the swollen Cedar River in Cedar Rapids, IA in August of 1993. Once a gauntlet bridge, it is single track in this photo. A bottleneck for traffic for many years, the... (more)

The hot Global 2 to Salt Lake Z-train hammers down. Seems like this Z is getting hotter than the Z-BRB as the engineer has all 5 jacks in the left corner as they fly across a high Cedar River. Thi... (more)

CNW 6905 is about to duck under Hwy 13/151 near Bertram, IA, just east of Cedar Rapids, on a nice Fall day in October of 1989.

It's a nice sunny June morning in Cedar Rapids as ITAG4 crosses the Cedar River Bridge. This mornings ITAG4 is led by at UP GEVO and NS Dash 9 with a nice set of ONE containers towards the head en... (more)

The 0630 SACR rolls into the CRANDICs "950" yard with a nice lash up of 2 GEVOs and 3 GEEPs. The Interstate Car Man helps out the 0630 giving the conductor a ride to line switches so the... (more)

With a derailment in Ames Iowa the previous day traffic has been slow on the Double Main in Iowa. A surprise that after was a line up of 3 westbounds out of Clinton. The last train was the hotshot... (more)

CN 5611 pulls an extra L567 into "A Yard."

CN 5750 (EMD SD75I) leads an early evening L567 north, across Cold Stream. Taken just before sunset on May 6, 2020.

UP 1743 leads "the drag" around the bend towards the Cedar River bridge. They are headed southbound from North Yard to the Beverly Yard. Those John Deere tractors were brought to UP's No... (more)

Union Pacific's 53 Job known to railfans as "The Drag" brings a cut of cars from UP's North Yard in Cedar Rapids to Beverly Yard on the south side of town. On the head end of the train i... (more)

UP 1743 and UP 1657 arrive back at Beverly with "the drag."