The daily Waterloo to Chicago freight train is already 35 miles into their trip out of Waterloo. Today the train is chasing down a U704 that is 15 miles ahead of them. An eastbound out of Waterloo... (more)

A pair of CSX SD40's was team up with another CSX unit to power this unit ethanol train out of Waterloo. The train now heads east towards Chicago where it will interchange to the CSX for points ea... (more)

The U703 picked up power at Manchester while meeting 2 eastbound trains. The head 2 NS units are off a U705 that spotted Dyersville. The U703 was madeup of the rear 2 CSX motors and the train. See... (more)

GE has begun its delivery of the new Tier 4 GEVO's to CN. The new AC's will be numbered in the 3000's series and M337 has one of the brand new units leading on the way to Waterloo. The train is pa... (more)

The engineer on the daily Kirk Yard, IN, to Waterloo, IA, manifest train climbs back on his unit after giving M338 a rollby at West Beth. M337 is very late tonight and ended up meeting it's counte... (more)

Only a couple weeks old, these new GEVO's 2946/2950, power a good size M337 into the siding at Beth for a meet with a U704. Over 8000 feet of train can be seen as there is 7 miles of the Dubuque S... (more)

An extra Hawthorne Yard to Waterloo manifest train has just passed over the east switch at Beth Siding. The town of Masonville can be seen in the background. These extras are ran when traffic for ... (more)

The ADM shuttle grain train is eastbound bound for the ADM plant in Cedar Rapids, IA. This train has 76 cars of corn that was loaded at the elevator at Yetter, IA, on CN's Omaha Sub. Here the trai... (more)

The ADM shuttle grain train is eastbound bound for the ADM plant in Cedar Rapids, IA. This train has 76 cars of corn that was loaded at the elevator at Yetter, IA, on CN's Omaha Sub. Here the trai... (more)

An rare daylight freight train move out of Waterloo, this X338 works east thru a winter wonderland. Here the train climbs the grade at Beth Siding, 30 miles east of Waterloo. BNSF wouldn't take a ... (more)

The Fond Du Lac, WI, to Waterloo, IA, extra manifest train is passing thru Beth Siding couple miles east of Winthrop. The CN in Iowa has been extremely short of power this week, X337 and M337 toda... (more)

The daily Kirk Yard, IN, to Waterloo, IA, manifest train is westbound as it passes thru Beth Siding with a small 4600 foot of train. The train is 34 miles from the destination of Waterloo Yard. Be... (more)

The daily Kirk Yard, IN, to Waterloo, IA, manifest train is westbound as it passes thru Beth Siding with 7300 feet of train and the CN 5548 and CN 5415 for power. The train is 34 miles from the de... (more)

A westbound freight bound for Waterloo has just top the grade at Beth Siding in 1998. Hard to believe in 1998 a class 1 mainline train with 7 units, and not a one has dynamic brakes on it. IC mana... (more)

M338 and M337 is meeting at Beth siding tonight and swapping crews. When M337 is late enough then usually these 2 trains will meet and swaps crews so the Waterloo and Dubuque crews end up back at ... (more)