IAIS 513 leads BICB-11 towards Oxford, Iowa.

The sun has started to break out as the 1100 Newton Switcher crew brings BICB east out of Ladora Iowa. Trailing on this days BICB is a N&S GP60 and a GMTX (ex KCS) cab end Switcher. The NS GP70 is... (more)

The daily BICB heads west through Iowa City nearing sunset. The train had a pretty bad flat spot several cars back, which required the train to stop for several minutes making us almost miss it i... (more)

The Jewel Of Joliet. On the evening of Wednesday, June 16, 2021, Iowa Interstate Railroad's BICB (Blue Island, Illinois-Council Bluffs, Iowa) crosses the diamond in Joliet, Illinois. IAIS 518 (GE ... (more)

Over the past few weeks the usual east and west trains on the IAIS have been running on a new schedule to accommodate a tie project going on on the Iowa City Subdivision making for nice afternoon ... (more)

Iowa Interstate 515 with the daily westbound enters Iowa crossing the Arsenal Bridge over the Mighty Mississippi. As of recently BICB has been an afternoon run across the Iowa City Subdivision wit... (more)

IAIS 516 plows through Wilton, IA, busting the drift on Cherry St by the depot as it passes.

Iowa Interstate's daily Blue Island to Council Bluffs road freight busts a snow drift with both of the Interstate's special painted units, passing by the restored Wilton depot.

Iowa Interstate's daily Blue Island to Council Bluffs freight BICB kicks up some fresh snow while roaring through Atalissa on the Iowa City Subdivision. The sun just started to peak out as a syste... (more)

With the mid-July sunset still a little less than an hour away, Iowa Interstate's nightly Blue Island to Council Bluffs road freight very slowly creeps out of the former Rock Island Burr Oak Yard ... (more)

A IAIS geep leads BICB west through New Lenox.

The talk on the block was once the Iowa Interstate got their 3 new GEVO's on property the 4 SD38's were going to be stored. That is what ended up happening in late February 2020. Back in mid-Febru... (more)

Iowa 501 leads a daylight BICB west through New Lenox.

If you are going to do the IAIS now days, bring your racing shoes! Keeping up on this 40 mph track isn't the easiest. Here the west train rumbles thru the small town of Homestead a few miles east ... (more)

If you are going to do the IAIS now days, bring your racing shoes! Keeping up on this 40 mph track isn't the easiest. Here the west train rumbles thru the small town of Downey a few miles east of ... (more)