Ex-Rock Island track, old Rock Island depot, and a F40 painted in Rock Island, makes for a small trip back to the days. The Rock never had this type of equipment, but still cool for a small time r... (more)

The Iowa Northern's Palo Express is rolling along south of Washburn with the deadhead move to Palo. The IANR is running flood relief trips tomorrow between Palo and Vinton to raise money to help w... (more)

The Iowa Northern's Palo Express has just departed the roundhouse at Bryant Yard for the deadhead trip to Palo for tomorrow's event. The train is passing the South Crew's power that will head out ... (more)

The Oelwein Job has just begun their day at Fairbank. They will get 31 cars together for the trip down to Waterloo. Here they are moving some cars for the ethanol plant before digging out more eth... (more)

The south crew is down to a crawl as they climb out of the Cedar River near 42nd St in northern Cedar Rapids. Engineer Bob Helling is back try to keep the 1792 running to make it over the grade. T... (more)

The South Crew rolls thru the country side between La Porte and Mt Auburn. This end of the railroad was normally nocturnal until mid-June when the floods took out the Waterloo Cedar River bridge c... (more)

The Oelwein job is heading back north towards Oelwein at sunset. This crew went to work at noon at Fairbank and is making a Waterloo turn. At Waterloo they delivered cars to the CN and also left c... (more)

The North Crew slowly makes their way south towards Waterloo. This job had almost 100 cars today out of Nora Springs. This end is seeing all the traffic due to bridge still out in Waterloo due to ... (more)

Traffic has been lite for the South Crew since June due to the IANR being cut in half by the flood damage to the bridge in Waterloo. This job normally ran 7 nights a week to Cedar Rapids, but now ... (more)

The South Crew has 20 load of grain as they roll south towards Vinton, the next stop. Due to the CRANDIC bridge out at Cedar Rapids the IANR has to do a couple push-pull moves in CR to get over to... (more)

It is getting to be that time of the year when farmers begin to get crops out of the fields. The beans are out in this field south of Marble Rock. The North Crew heads south with around 90 cars wi... (more)

Vestiges of the Chicago Great Western Mainline to Kansas City. The superelevation in this curve is no longer needed for the 10mph running on what is now a short spur.

The Iowa Northern's North Crew has just lined the electric lock switches on the Albert Lea Sub to get across the UP into the yard at Manly. The UP north dispatcher gives the IANR permission to mak... (more)

Ethanol has brought this section of the CGW back to life. Here, the westbound Iowa Northern Oelwein Job passes ethanol & dried distillers grain hoppers on it's way out of town. With most of the ... (more)

Iowa Northern 3811 leans to the left as it hits a low spot in the track north of Nora Springs. Traffic on the Iowa Northern has grown significantly with the boom in ethanol production.