The three units have no issue lugging the train up the grade.

A plethora of power awaits assignment at Fort Madison.

As Eli opens the throttle up, it produces an amazing smoke show as 8419 and the train pull out of Fraser and up a slight grade over the Fraser road crossing.

As Eli and Joe run 8419, Stephen and John grab shots of the train coming out of town and across Marion Street for the trip to Fraser.

As Eldon and Phil bring the 12:30 Dessert train up off the Des Moines River bridge, the Des Moines YMCA camp sits quiet, awaiting children to spend time to make friends once they arrive.

Men at work.....

BNSF 9339 passes the newly added "raised" signal boxes. After the flood of the Des Moines River a few years back, the BNSF and CP invested money is raising the components of the diamond, all of th... (more)

An Americanized 2-10-2 operated by Iowa Interstate charges out of Newton on a Fire Department benefit trip on a hot June day.

"36 cars to this point" Reads the sign for the COOP switching crews for placing grain hoppers. UP 6584 leads a westbound empty just west of Nevada.

UP 4879 leads the Proviso to Council Bluffs Road freight westbound west of Nevada right at the Heart of Iowa Coop.

While crews work tirelessly in the hot and humid Iowa summer, UP 8660 heads west with a stack train. Shot during the Kate Shelley High Bridge new-bridge cut over.

BNSF 8853 grabs a new crew before proceeding south.

UP 6880 brings up the rear on an eastbound manifest rolling into Cheyenne for a crew change.

UP 3201 has turbo charger issues as itself and another SD40-2 lead the west job (Wycon Switch) out west to switch Wycon/DynoNobel west of Cheyenne.

BNSF 4977 brings a late coming Tacoma, WA to Omaha, NE stack train past the Valmont Power Plant located in Boulder, CO.