After the day before’s excursion out of Oxford, QJ #6988 rockets east early the next morning with a 60 mile deadhead move from South Amana for the next excursion out of Wilton. They are seen her... (more)

After the day before’s excursion out of Oxford, QJ #6988 rockets east early the next morning with a 60 mile deadhead move from South Amana for the next excursion out of Wilton. They are seen her... (more)

Running 1X1 with an ET44AC on the point, a Union Pacific unit grain train cruises south on the Trenton Sub on the outskirts of the small town of Hartford, Iowa.

An EMD GP7 and SW1500 put on a good show as the Iowa Southern crew pulls cars out of their interchange with BNSF in Albia, Iowa on a frigid but sunny evening. Albia is the northern terminus of thi... (more)

A loaded BNSF coal train rolls east in the morning sun just outside of Avery, Iowa. This is one of the locations where the double track Ottumwa Sub runs of separate grades between Maxon and the ea... (more)

UP 554 & 500 creeping over the Iowa Interstate on the UP Oskaloosa Sub.

The LNM34 heading across one of the many old bridges along the Oskaloosa Sub

With a clean stack and the reverser near centered, QJ 6988 flys past the rural fields of Iowa with the 2nd in a series of Wilton-originating excursions. 2021 would mark the last year of the QJs us... (more)

BNSF GP39-3 no. 2587 and BN 3194, a GP50, makeup a colorful pairing at Clinton, IA on January 7, 2021. Yes, I had to stop and take this photo! Once again, BNSF looking its best! The pair handle lo... (more)

Two IAIS GP38-2’s finish up leaving a cut of cars on the Interchange tracks while a CP crew immediately comes and picks them up with a solo SOO GP38-2, #4448 to take back to CP’s Nahant Yard.

It's March of 1996 and big changes are to come along the former C&NW mainline in western Iowa. C&NW had single-tracked the railroad west of Dennison, IA and it had become quite a bottleneck that U... (more)

LNM34 from Marshalltown headed down the Oskaloosa Sub on their way to Eddyville as they pass by the old elevator that still stands in Searsboro.

UP 554 & 500 (GP38s) leading LNM34 down the Oskaloosa Sub through the small Central Iowa town of Gilman.

CN manifest freight M338 climbs the roller coaster grade into Winthrop, Iowa alongside Iowa's 220th Street. The train is on former Illinois Central trackage as it runs from Waterloo to Gary, India... (more)