On the return trip from South Amana during its final run, the crew and passengers take lunch at Brooklyn which also allowed for a meet with the eastbound road freight CBBI. After about an hour in ... (more)

Iowa Interstate 6988 blasts off from a brief stop at Grinnell continuing on to South Amana during its final run before its 1472 inspection.

Iowa Interstate ES44AC 503 brings up the rear DPU of a late running CBBI as it rolls across US Route 6 and heads into Newton, Iowa, which is typically where this train would get its crew. A hotbox... (more)

IAIS 6988 leads a excursion East near Wilton.

IAIS 6988 leads a excursion East into Durant.

Shortly after sunrise, IAIS 6988 leads a Eastbound deadhead move through Oxford.

Two General Electric ES44ACs have Iowa Interstate's daily Chicago-Blue Island to Council Bluffs road freight (BICB-10) hustling west at 40 miles per through white carpets of snow and frigid wind c... (more)

A CSX crew working on the diamonds takes a brief break to allow an Iowa Interstate train, crossing the Calumet Sag Channel on the Baltimore & Ohio Chicago Terminal (also known as the Indiana Harbo... (more)

One of the 4 IAIS SD38-2’s on point IAIS 151, IAIS ES44AC 513 (Rock Island Heritage Unit) and IAIS GP38-2 711 wait for a crew on point of the Blue Island - CSX Barr Yard transfer (IAIS BICSX) a... (more)

A westbound Iowa Interstate Railroad freight clatters over the Santa Fe main line at Joliet Union Station on the afternoon of February 22, 1989. Iowa Interstate was formed on November 2, 1984, to ... (more)

With their work completed, a pair of ES44AC's lead the Iowa Interstate's CBBI as it rolls east out of Kellogg, Iowa and approaches the Route 6 overpass. The Heartland Coop grain elevators back in ... (more)

A pair of Iowa Interstate GEVO's lead the eastbound CBBI as it cruises through Brooklyn, Iowa and passes by the Brooklyn Elevator complex along the south side of the small town.

After the excursion, 6988 was wyed in Newton here and backing up to be put away for the night, while the CBBI manifest waits for a crew to take the train east.

After dropping off the majority of the train in the siding, 6988 heads east to wye in South Amana, past an old decrepit barn.

On the final run before going down for it's boiler rebuild, 6988 spent the weekend hauling freight between Newton and South Amana. Here, it is seen on Saturday morning pulling the water tender, to... (more)