A combo ballast empty rolls north on the CP Ottumwa Sub. The train has just crossed the BNSF Ottumwa Sub and now will climb the steep 1.8% grade to Rutledge. This inbound crew is taking this train... (more)

On September 5, 2022, a derailment, bridge collapse and subsequent liquid asphalt spill over Spring Creek near Hampton, Iowa caused several Union Pacific trains to detour across Iowa Northern trac... (more)

A CP southbound pauses briefly in the midst of the street-running through Lansing on a bustling Sunday afternoon. I hadn't expected this and it allowed me to quickly capture a couple of neat angle... (more)

CP 576 weaves their way south on a sunny afternoon along the Mississippi, skirting the undulating terrain about half way between Lansing and Harpers Ferry while doing their best to time up a meet ... (more)

Running about an hour and a half behind schedule, Amtrak's westbound California Zephyr catches the last light of the day as it speeds past farm fields in Batavia, Iowa on BNSF's Ottumwa Sub. In th... (more)

The summer MOW season is in full swing along the Ottumwa Sub as BNSF M OTMOTM6 06T rolls west through the crossovers at Beckwith, Iowa behind an ES44DC, passing a sand train holding back at the si... (more)

CP 853 is just about clear of the street running in Lansing as the sun tries hard to break through the morning fog with the small town still sleeping on a Sunday morning. The whistles at both ends... (more)

Coal loads rumble slowly through the street running in Lansing on a quiet Sunday morning with what was earlier a heavy fog on the Mississippi still hanging around the surrounding hills. This train... (more)

Double header freight heading east at sunrise.

Electric Power Iowa Traction steeplecab electric No. 51 has a lot of work to do in order to get this string of loaded cars to the CP interchange track. Due to the steep grade leaving AGP, ... (more)

Bringing up the rear of a loaded DDG hopper train, BNSF warbonnet Dash 9 750 rolls past the Ottumwa Amtrak Station in Ottumwa, Iowa as the train accelerates after clearing the 10 mph crossover at ... (more)

Ethanol loads creep through the street-running in Bellevue, kissed by the setting sun on a quiet Sunday evening along the Mississippi in small-town Iowa.

A Cedar Rapids And Iowa City Railway MP15 and Slug set pull a string of empty DDG hoppers out of the west yard at the industrial complex in Eddyville, Iowa with cars bound for the massive Cargill... (more)

Inch by inch, brick by brick, enshrouded against the deep walls of the many old warehouse and factory buildings set within downtown Burlington, an old face in a familiar place cautiously inches fo... (more)

After completing work in Albia, Iowa at the BNSF interchange and Wabtec's Relco facility, the Iowa Southern's local heads south from town behind a single leased SW1500, approaching the crossing wi... (more)