CN Local making its way back from Illinois after serving local industries.

A solo Union Pacific ET44AC leads a southbound loaded ethanol train as it departs from Des Moines, Iowa on the Trenton Subdivision. After getting the light across the Iowa Interstate and BNSF diam... (more)

A rebuilt AC4400CW sits with a westbound stack train on the Boyer River bridge as it waits for a couple of eastbounds out of Council Bluffs to clear the single track south of Missouri Valley, IA.

The daily St. Paul to KC freight train for the CP is fresh on the Marquette Sub as they leave LaCrescent behind. The train passes over the Root River and some of the back waters around MP 156. Ab... (more)

The CB&Q originally built across the Missouri Rive back in 1880. The Burlington and Missouri River Railroad had reached Plattsmouth in 1870 while working west from Creston towards Lincoln. The CB&... (more)

With UP and BNSF power on the point, Canadian Pacific manifest freight 261 gets on the move north out of Ottumwa, IA after completing its work at the yard. With a clear signal across the diamond w... (more)

With the Rock Island heritage leading a seven unit consist, the Iowa Interstate's BICB gets on the move out of Iowa City, Iowa after holding to meet the 6988 steam special. The train is crossing o... (more)

A trio of standard cab EMD's lead BNSF's Galesburg to Des Moines manifest H GALDMO1 11A as it rolls over the bridge spanning the Des Moines River in Ottumwa, Iowa. A recrew boarded back in town fo... (more)

Canadian Pacific's St. Paul to Kansas City manifest freight 260 cruises south across curved trestle in Foster, Iowa. This is the middle bridge of the three trestles that make up the "Foster B... (more)

IAIS 6988 steams across the Cedar River into Moscow with 2100 tons of freight in tow.

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)

CP ran their tech train across the old GWWR on the KCS on 1/27 and 28. The train came out of Gateway Rail Services in St. Louis late 1/27 and ran to KC on the 28th. Last night the train made its w... (more)

A pair of CLS trains would meet on the westside of Ottumwa on this fine Sunday evening. Here a loaded CLS crosses the Des Moines River about 4 miles west of Ottumwa with a nice clean ACe on the po... (more)

A 25th anniversary unit leads this empty working west from Galesburg to Lincoln and is about 110 miles from the next crew change point at Creston. Here they cross the Des Moines River about 4 mile... (more)

The Cedar River has taken on a new look late January. The CN changed the job to go to 1 crew with no company vehicle. The job now is working without a defined schedule and also times when all the ... (more)