Canadian American Railroad no. 40 shows off its CP inspired scheme viewed from the long hood at CP's Bensenville, IL yard. The rear nose is rather anemic with the thin yellow stripes placed over a... (more)

When the Iron Road Railway (IRR) took over the Iowa Northern in 1994, some of their power also came to the property. These units for sister companies BAR and CDAC were rebuilt at National Railway ... (more)

Couple F40's and a slug work south with interchange traffic off the CP at Nora Springs. Most of this traffic is bound for Cedar Rapids and will be handed off to the south crew at Waterloo tonight.... (more)

Iowa Northern's North Crew is about to stop at the 1st stop since leaving Bryant Yard in Waterloo. Here at Shell Rock the crew has to spot and pull 11 cars from the elevator and spot 3 car of fert... (more)

Iowa Northern's North Crew left Bryant Yard on the south side of Waterloo at 3:20 pm, and find itself alittle over a hour later back on home rails and heading towards the 1st stop at Shell Rock. T... (more)

Southern Pacific GP35 7716 was built in February 1965. Later renumbered SP 6613, and then renumbered again to SP 6331, it was eventually sold to Northern Vermont as their 510, later becoming Cana... (more)

Iowa Northern's North Crew is rolling north thru Waterloo on IC's Industrial Lead near West Waterloo. This train has a rebuild CDAC GP 35 that came out of NRE at Silvis, IL. The IANR was a sister ... (more)

The North Crew's power is parked on the elevator track at Nora Springs. This power will be used to help run around the Fairbank ethanol train that will be here in 30 minutes. Since there only one ... (more)

The Iowa Northern's Oelwein job is heading south towards Waterloo with an ethanol train for the Canadian National at Waterloo, IA. Here they pull at 10 mph thru the sag a few miles south of Fairb... (more)

The Iowa Northern's Oelwein job went to work at 8 am at Waterloo and cabbed to Fairbank to put together an ethanol train for the Canadian National at Waterloo, IA. Here they head south towards Wat... (more)

A cab view of the once Canadian American 453. It now sits on freight car trucks, apparently serving as a parts source.

The South Crew heads back towards Waterloo today with 2 CDAC units and 3 cars. This job normally would have the power in a push-pull mode due to the bridge still out to get over to the CRANDIC in ... (more)

The future for this unit? AMP is rebuilding three of these into road slugs for use out west.

A bit of speed on a magic carpet ride, More bumpy that it looks.

The 11 pm North Crew has about 5 miles left to get into Greene. At Greene another crew will jump aboard at 7am for the trip south towards Waterloo. Right now the North Crew only has 43 empties tha... (more)