Eastbound CP train 288 slowly pokes across the Black and Mississippi River Bridges between LaCrescent and LaCrosse on the CP Tomah Sub. The cool old Milwaukee Road billboard shows heritage to the ... (more)

How an industry was drawn up like this is kind of amazing! The LaCrosse Local B72 shoves around in almost a circle to spot this tie car customer. The mainline switch they used off the Tomah Sub is... (more)

This is the old Milwaukee Road Depot in Mason City. This depot is no longer used since the CP has build a new office near the roundhouse on the southside of the yard. In 2018 the CP was going to d... (more)

With a 3pm start time at Waterloo and the winter light, the Oelwein Job treks north at sunset. The train is a couple miles south of Dunkerton as they pass this farmstead with a small 4 car train. ... (more)

The Iowa Northern's North Crew slowly roll south on the Manly Sub outside of Rock Falls. The crew will stop and do work at Nora Springs with the CP here in a few miles. The rear car is hiding, but... (more)

Back in 2008 the Huron to Chicago Clearing freight train pulls into Nora Springs via Iowa Northern trackage. Sure do miss the days where the blues rule this regional railroad. The changes the past... (more)

The Wells Local is heading back to its home base in the late afternoon sun. The train is just kicking it up to 40 mph here at Oakland. The train normally would make an Austin Turn and swap trains ... (more)

Back when I started for CN in 2004, the locals between Waterloo and Fort Dodge would meet mid-day around the Webster City/Williams area and swap trains. The jobs this day meet here at Webster City... (more)

Solid black IC consists were the new normal in the early 2000's once CN took over. The IC SD40's seem to be the main stay power for Iowa, along with a few SD70's. CN power wasn't as common, and if... (more)

I believe I was on the way to work at Marquette and happened to time out this meet at the west end of the Beth Siding back in 1999. A westbound IC train is working towards Waterloo at sunrise. The... (more)

This Rapid City to Huron train is about 15 miles into their trip from Rapid City to Phillip for the next crew change. The crew got on at Box Elder and has been slowly working east for the past 2 h... (more)

I was watching the weather and seen that there was maybe a chance for some drop under light at sunset. Well we chased this eastbound Rapids City to Huron train from Van Meter to east of Wendte bef... (more)

The Great Lakes local out of Owosso is currently traveling over the CN Holly Sub south of Durand. The GLC uses about 5 miles of CN trackage to get thru Durand and back to home rails at Pitt. This ... (more)

Local 514, on the right, is waiting for E251 to clear the Holly Sub at Durand so they can head south towards Moterm. While waiting a westbound E275 slams by on MT#1 heading towards Battle Creek. T... (more)

The CSX D711 local out of Flint is just about to enter the CN Flint Sub at Belsay. This local uses CN trackage from Flint to Port Huron to access the CSX Port Huron Sub. The job is somewhat land ... (more)