The CCP acquired 20 ex-MILW GP9Rs sometime in 1985. These units had 2000 horses and classed GP 20s. These things were pretty ratty by the time the CCP ran them into the ground in 10 years they had... (more)

The Iowa Northern smacked a large crane at the crossing at Mona Jct the day before. The accident put all 3 units and a bunch of coal cars in the ditch. The IANR was on their way to deliver coal at... (more)

This eastbound coal train is struggling to make its way out of the Maquoketa River Valley 28 miles west of Dubuque. The grade out of Dyersville is the toughest on the Dubuque Sub between Waterloo ... (more)

Only a consistent mother could love. This was the CC I remember growing up. Mixed match piles of junk, hoping the couple would be running at the other end. An empty coal train is rolling through E... (more)

4 geeps bring an eastbound into Waterloo from the west. The train is just past CTC Susie on the west side of Waterloo, where the double track starts for the yard. Only a couple more years were lef... (more)

A westbound CCP train crosses the Cedar River bridge in Cedar Falls on the way west towards Ft. Dodge and western Iowa. Only a couple more years were left for this short-time regional in 1993. The... (more)

It wasn't too easy getting solid orange-matched jeeps in the later part of the CCP days. Here a westbound rolls through West New Hartford on the way toward Ft. Dodge and western Iowa. Only a coupl... (more)

A collection of jeeps handles this coal train out of Council Bluffs to Chicago. The train is about to arrive at Waterloo as they pass through the west end of the double track at Waterloo named Sus... (more)

A meet today that still happens quite often nowadays. Back in 1992, the Iowa Northern's North Job was waiting for an empty CCP IEI coal train to depart Waterloo. The Iowa Northern started using th... (more)

An eastbound has all the geeps barking as they climb the grade into Beth. These tired girls have been working their tails off since they left Waterloo 35 miles ago. There will be no break all the ... (more)

I forgot there was a bridge signal bridge here at the east end of Peosta siding. An empty IEI coal train has 3 geeps as they pull into the siding at Peosta. Peosta is located 13 miles west of Dubu... (more)

CCP 7904 tows a grain train thru Council Bluffs, IA in May of 1987.

Still adorned in Illinois Central Gulf orange-and-white colors, Chicago Central & Pacific GP8 No. 7985 and GP10 No. 8188 lead a CC train around a curve at 55th Street Interlocking on the Belt Rail... (more)

A trio of former Milwaukee Road EMD GP20s, now owned by Chicago Central & Pacific, depart the CC’s locomotive facility at Hawthorne Yard at Cicero, Illinois, on November 22, 1986. These EMD GP9s... (more)

Led by EMD GP10 No. 8234, a westbound Chicago Central coal train emerges from the curved tunnel at East Dubuque, Illinois, on February 8, 1992. The train is about to rattle over Burlington Norther... (more)