A Tara bound empty ethanol train out of eastern Canada, pulls into the Valero plant. The train will yard in the loop tracks just out of site to my left. The UP local in the background is on the UP... (more)

Much to the surprise of us, this tank train out of Williams, OK, had some coal train power on it. It's kind of rare for these parts on the Transcon. Here, the train crosses the Des Moines River on... (more)

Just a few minutes after sunset on a frigid January evening, a Cedar Rapids & Iowa City Railroad local is working customers in one of the industrial parks south of downtown. The railroad has a uni... (more)

A pair of GP's are hard at work on the east end of Union Pacific's Shortline Yard in East Des Moines, Iowa. The crew is currently on the Iowa Interstate's Newton Subdivision Main and is shoving ba... (more)

IANR company special (school reunion) is arriving in Manly and will jump on UP for a few blocks to reach their own yard. Curious how CN will utilize these trackage rights, say, to access the Twin... (more)

IANR hosted a night photo session with the two restored CRIP E-units at their yard in Manly. Funds were raised to see their return to powered status, hopefully the sale to CN will not derail this... (more)

Still wearing its Burlington Northern Cascade Green, BNSF SD40-2 1706 sits on the point of the M GALEDY power set at the south end of the yard outside of Eddyville, Iowa. After a night run from Ga... (more)

CP 7019 leading a 374 through Letts, IA in some snow flurries

A classic CN EMD SD40-2W and 2 NS motors leads a G889 grain train out of the Mississippi River Valley towards Waterloo, and eventually Alden, IA.

A southbound Iowa Northern Railway freight, led by EMD GP38-2 No. 3800, rolls through Greene, Iowa, on May 21, 2014.

10pm - Westbound BICB Iowa Interstate from South Amana to Newton Iowa - See here passing through the diamond UP/IAIS in Grinnell Iowa

With a GEVO and two GP's on the head end and another GEVO bringing up the rear, the Iowa Interstate's CBBI makes its way east over the Newton Subdivision and is about to pound the diamond with the... (more)

KCS and CP power has been well-mixed since the merger. Train K37 is a good example of that with one of each climbing out of the Mississippi River Valley on the way to Mason City. Late October ligh... (more)

A quartet of Canadian National locomotives lead manifest freight M388 eastbound as it crosses over Spring Creek and approaches Jesup, Iowa. This freight is starting its journey towards Gary, India... (more)

IC 3107, 6200, & GTW 4900 scurry past the landmark is the rather flashy, Rick's Auto Sales lot car-topped signage. Tonight, the IC 3107 leads the charge in front of the Cedar Rapids to Manchester,... (more)