L563 heads back to Cedar Rapids from Manchester with a pair of rare CN standard cab SD40's. These 2 old girls were paired up few days ago in Dubuque and have been working L563/L565 in eastern Iowa... (more)

Dakota & Iowa GP-9's 23, 24 (both ex NP) lead a short southbound train of gondolas filled with rip-rap over the Big Sioux River bridge north of Hawarden, IA. Operating on former Milwaukee Road tra... (more)

The southbound Hudson-Sioux City Local crosses the Big Sioux River in Riverside, IA on Oct. 7, 2013 with GP39-2s No's. 2511 and 2510.

3 ex-Northwestern SD40's cross Crooked Creek just south of Rolfe as they work west to Albert City, IA, with an empty grain train back in 2006. The UP Tara Sub runs from Grand Junction, IA, to Mall... (more)

Crossing out of Bellevue and back along backwaters of the Mississippi.

Chicago Central train No. 51 heads out of Dubuque, Iowa, past rolling hills of farmland on October 23, 1993. Powering the train are EMD GP38 Nos. 2009 and 2007.

Working South and working joint with job 16.

Running light to Atlantic,Iowa.

No. 12 steams around the Midwest Central loop with a load of passengers.

A momentary break in the clouds allows a splash of evening sunlight to shine on BNSF's swing bridge across the Mississippi. In just a few moments, the BNSF stack train crossing the bridge will be ... (more)

CNW 7026, 8045, 8047 roll coal empties west over the Kate Shelly bridge west of Boone.

Less then a 1/2 mile till there on home rails the Iowa Northern crew received the train from the CN by Haulage rights from the BNSF at East Dubuque IL.

A mix of ICE, DME and CITX power leads the B67 local from Savanna across the Sabula Drawbridge on the Mississippi River. This train is the incoming 589 from the previous day, will interchange car... (more)

With CP storing or returning leased units, the Soo Line SD60's have been on the increase on the ex-IC&E lines. Here a trio SD60's came out of Chicago on this empty Hartley, IA, ethanol train. At M... (more)

Keokuk Junction Alco S2 #20, still in her Manufacturers Railway Company paint, has just crossed the double deck Mississippi bridge into Iowa from Illinois with 23 cars from TP&W interchange in LaH... (more)