An extra Iowa Interstate job from the CRANDIC interchange in Cedar Rapids departs Fairfax with manifest and empty coal buckets bound for the BNSF in Council Bluffs.

An Iowa Interstate coal extra from the Norfolk Southern in Peoria slowly approaches its final destination of the CRANDIC interchange in Cedar Rapids.

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)

Paul Meyer photo.

IAIS 513 leads a PESI out of Annawan in the last hour of sunlight.

IAIS 153 leads the empty NS coalie from Cedar Rapids into Davenport, IA.

As the sun approaches the horizon, IAIS 502 leads an SASI through Oxford, Iowa. Look closely and you'll see the friendly crew grinning through the window.

Iowa Interstate Montreal Locomotive Works M420W No. 800 rests at the railroad’s facilities at Council Bluffs, Iowa, on May 7, 1995. This unit is former Providence & Worcester No. 2001 built in F... (more)

On a chilly December morning Iowa Interstate 518 with 2 NS Dash 9s bring CRSA south at County Road F12.

Iowa Interstate's Extra South Amana Switcher crew brings CIC cars south to South Amana with power from the PECR coal train that they brought up a few hours prior.

The Hawkeye Express heads toward Kinnick Stadium. Taken from a secluded spot near Clear Creek.

This is a photo of Iowa Interstate's July 4, 2019 passenger excursion, to benefit the Oxford, IA fire department. Taken at 10:05 A.M. this would have been the first of five runs that day. Location... (more)

Iowa Interstate 518 with SASI pulls up to the East Switch at Yocum to change crews with the PECR coal train.

Tom Golden photo.

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)