With a trio of EMD's up front, including a triclops SD60M leader, the BNSF H GALDMO manifest rounds the bend as it approaches Sheahan, Iowa. The train will to a stop at the crossing up ahead and g... (more)

Working a customer, with a string of second handers, out on the plains is typical Northwestern. Photo by unknown, from my collection.

Cedar Valley Railroad unit "bug eye" is a ex-IC unit that looks like a GP10 but was never renumbered. Curious. Photo by unknown, from my collection.

KCS SD70MAC 3967 heads light through floodwaters in downtown Davenport, heading to LeClaire to pick up a ballast train.

CP 8126 leads CPKC 9-253 South through a flooded downtown Davenport.

IAIS ES44AC 503 leads BICB West past a old Rock Island signal in Davenport.

BNSF GP38-2 2099 leads BN Rock South through the Mississippi River floodwaters in Davenport.

KCS SD70MAC 3903 leads a manifest North through the Mississippi river floodwaters in downtown Davenport at sunset. Rapid snowmelt from Minnesota and Wisconsin has pushed the Mississsippi River ove... (more)

As the Mississippi River flooding continues to wreak havoc, ballast trains having been running day and night to fight the rising water. KCS 3967 leads an empty 3GPS north on a rainy Sunday mornin... (more)

A top-five Mississippi River flood event still has aways to go before reaching the tracks at Lansing. Empty ethanol heading south to Marquette, IA where it will turn west towards Mason City, IA.

CP 8781 leads 474 along the Western banks of the Mississippi River.

CP 8781 leads train 474 through the close quarters of Lansing, Iowa.

IC GP10 no. 8062 is in the Waterloo, IA roundhouse. The nose logo indicates this unit has yet to be re-lettered to ICG. Waterloo was an important terminal on ICG's line from Chicago to Omaha, and ... (more)

After leading a manifest into Des Moines, Iowa, a Union Pacific SD70M and AC4400CW break down their train on the inbound tracks at Shortline Yard. Once the crew drops this last cut of cars, they ... (more)

The Iowa Northern's North Crew does work in the Manly Terminal. This is the farthest north the Iowa Northern goes. The Manly Yard used to be a small little operation with an interchange point wit... (more)