HUCC is only a half mile away from starting the 14 miles decent from Monona to Marquette, IA. The Marquette Hill (or Monona Hill also called) is a grade of 1% for the next 13 miles with the 1st 2 ... (more)

The south end of Letts is lined up for the St. Paul, MN to Kansas City, MO manifest train to head south towards Ottumwa, IA. This is one of three short sections of CTC on the ICE's Kansas City Sub... (more)

This empty coal train is pulling out of the siding at Sully Spings. Over to Ryder will go the 8295 to meet the next coal train coming east. Track warrants issued this day were up in the 300's by 2... (more)

Sunrise west of New Salem, ND at North Almont. This is the 148th empty trip for this Superior, WI to Decker Mine, WY empty coal to make this year. 3 SD75M's due the honors on this trip west.

The sun has disappeared behind line of thunderstorms that began to move in from the northwest at sunset. This empy grain train came off the BNSF at East Dubuque, IL and is heading to Ida Grove, IA... (more)

Spring thunder storms rumble thru Central Iowa as L569 does it's local work at Tara. Heavy rain, nickel size hail and close lightning made for some fun times while pulling 53 cars out of Verasun f... (more)

Getting the handbrake tonight might be a chore for this engineer. 14 inches of snow and 3 days of wind has caused decent snow drifts to build on the Cherokee Sub.