I was watching the weather and seen maybe there was a chance drop under light might happened on our trip home. We chased this eastbound Rapids City to Huron train from Van Meter to east of Wendte ... (more)

The eastbound train out of Rapid City is met with the 1st light of the day near Van Meter. If you ever go to Van Meter, prepare yourself to be in the middle of now where. It is crazy that people l... (more)

The daily KC to St. Paul freight train is about to roll into Nahant Yard on the southside of Davenport. The train rolls past the industrial area south of Nahant and past this Continental Cement Pl... (more)

The Iowa Northern's North Crew slowly roll south on the Manly Sub outside of Nora Springs. The crew will stop and do work here at Nora Springs with the CP in a few miles. The rear car is a 5-packe... (more)

The Iowa Northern's North Crew slowly roll south on the Manly Sub outside of Nora Springs. The crew will stop and do work here at Nora Springs with the CP in a few miles. The rear car is a 5-packe... (more)

The Atchison local pulls thru town as they head to the southside to work along the river. This is the UP Fall City Sub between KC and Omaha. The leader is an ex-SSW 7606.

A dad and some kids watch this NS 16T train work north on the NS Roanoke District. The train passes a classic N&W signal at the south end of the siding called Lithia. This secondary route north o... (more)

Amtrak's Cardinal service from Chicago to New York is a 3 days a week and 26 hour schedule. The train uses the Buckingham Branch from Charlottesville to Clifton Forge, around 40 miles. Some of the... (more)

A nice Hiawatha set made the 11 am departure out of Milwaukee on 334. Although these B40's are in the wrong paint scheme, they still look cool on the front of passenger trains. Here the train pass... (more)

Someone at BNSF should be pretty proud they spent some money to get this fancy control point done. Guessing that taxpayers or the utility company (taxpayers again) payed for this setup, sure it wa... (more)

Westbound Z-train from Willow Springs, IL, to Alliance, TX, is crossing the massive Mississippi River Bridge at Fort Madison. The train is also crossing into the state of Iowa from Illinois. In ab... (more)

In the modern PTC era, getting foreign power to lead right now was harder to do on the BNSF in spots thru mid-2020. This loaded wind mill train has a lone CN Dash 8 for power. The 6700 foot train ... (more)

338 is in their normal morning routine of doubling up on the east end of the yard at Waterloo. While they double up the Iowa Northern's North Crew slips by on top heading for the industrial lead a... (more)

The quite little town of Scales Mound is awaken at 7:30 in the morning as a loaded ethanol pounds thru town. The train has spend the past 20 minutes fighting their way out of the Mississippi River... (more)

A loaded ethanol train out of Arthur, IA, digs into the grade on Scales Mound Hill between Galena and Scales Mound. The railroad lifts eastbound out of the Mississippi River Valley for 8 miles on ... (more)