An empty grain train from El Paso, TX, to Pleasant Hill, IA, crosses the east fork of the Skunk River just outside of Mount Pleasant. There are a couple impressive trestle between Rome and Mount P... (more)

CP's Ipsco Steel job returns to Nahant light engine.

A loaded sand train eases down the steep Rutledge Hill into Ottumwa. The train is currently being walked over a pull apart. Coming down this 1.8% hill can be a challenge, especially when MofW want... (more)

An eastbound coal transverses the Ottumwa Sub in southern Iowa. The train is crosses an impressive bridge over the Skunk River just east of Rome. Unfortunately this bridge is treed in pretty bad a... (more)

There was a small era that CN had a few of these old CN GP9's running around on locals in Iowa. I didn't get this much but one of my chases did feature a trio of them on the Waterloo local towards... (more)

Iowa Interstate QJ steam locomotive 6988 leads the return trip east on the first train of the day, crossing over 8th Street in Altoona pulling a passenger train being run as a benefit for local fi... (more)

A visit to my in-laws on my days off gave me some short time to get out and get some CP action in southern Iowa. One thing about the CP line to KC is traffic has really come on over the past coupl... (more)

A visit to my in-laws on my days off gave me some short time to get out and get some CP action in southern Iowa. One thing about the CP line to KC is traffic has really come on over the past coupl... (more)

U705 heads west across a creek in Waterloo as it approaches the yard with a colorful lash-up.

A westbound Marquette to Mason City freight train battles the curves and the grade out of the Mississippi River Valley west of Marquette. Here the train is about to MP 11 as the top is around MP 1... (more)

The CP's Laredo Sub crosses over three trestles spanning the rolling hills of southeastern Monroe County. Two of the trestles are located at a point known as Foster, a few miles East of Moravia. T... (more)

A pair of new AC44CWM rebuilds from GE lead local B39 as it heads north through Iowa and crosses over the Maquoketa River in Green Island.

Locomotives:
CP 8115 AC44CWM
CP 8105 AC44CW... (more)

After the eastbound Amtrak #4 Southwest Chief is in the clear on the main 2 track, San Bernardino bound BNSF S-CSXSBD-1-22 (Chicago,IL/CSXT-San Bernardino,CA) is crossing the Mississ... (more)

338 makes the daily trek towards Kirk Yard with a noon departure out of Waterloo. Here the train passes over Prairie Creek just outside of Masonville, about 40 mile east of Waterloo. Not alot of o... (more)

Running eastbound on the old Rock Island main line, Iowa Interstate train CBBI (Council Bluffs, Iowa, to Blue Island, Illinois) rumbles over the 490th Street overpass east of Hillis between Hancoc... (more)