BUGX 4135 sits in St Marys railroad yard getting repairs

While being operated by Iowa Pacific Holdings, Amtrak's "Hoosier State", train P851, eases off the wye at Canal Street in downtown Chicago.

Amtrak's "Hoosier State", train P851, glides in to Lafayette, IN, during the short time period while it was operated by Iowa Pacific Holdings.

Were They Plotting This Move? Perhaps there was something the veteran EMDs knew on May 29, 2014 at the "Streamliners At Spencer" event at the N.C. Transportation Museum in Spencer... (more)

Iowa Pacific 518 languishes in the yard at Alamosa and is for sale following the closure of the San Luis & Rio Grande. I hope this classic cab unit finds a buyer.

'The City of Grenada' pauses in the rural town of Tillatoba for a couple photo run-bys on a NRHS Memphis Chapter & Iowa Pacific Holdings sponsored excursion. The super-elevated curve is very appar... (more)

Iowa Pacific Holdings E8s 518 and 103 sit in storage in Batesville, Miss. The engines sit among almost a dozen passenger cars that were being used for Batesville's "Train to Christmas Town&qu... (more)

Built as CB&Q 9977 in 53', IPH 101 still rocks its former Illinois Central paint in November of 2018 at Kokomo, Ind. while being leased by the Indiana Transportation Museum. As the locmotive idles... (more)

SLRG E8 #515 along with SLRG E9 #103 (former Wisconsin Southern) is seen here resting in Batesville, MS, on a late July evening

Amtrak's P851, the Hoosier State, passes through the sleepy town of Battleground, IN during its northbound journey to Chicago.

Somewhere east of the Rio Grande. Iowa Pacific 456 (F40PHR, ex-Amtrak 378) and 457 (Road Slug, ex-Amtrak F40PH 367) sit on the Piedmont & Northern Railroad in Gastonia, NC on the evening of Sunday... (more)

The annual Christmas train power and passenger cars sit near the small town of Batesville Mississippi

SLRG 100 (Iowa Pacific Holdings E9A) spent the night in the Union Pacific's North Yard on its way to join the San Luis & Rio Grande Railroad in Walsenburg, Colorado. This engine has had quite the ... (more)

Iowa Pacific E-Unit in transit to be stored in Batesville, Mississippi until Christmas Train season. The Ex-Wisconsin & Southern E9 is in the consist of Grenada Railways southbound road freight fr... (more)

Iowa Pacific E-Units stored in Batesville, Mississippi until Christmas Train season. The Ex-Wisconsin & Southern E9 had just arrived on the Grenada Railways southbound road freight from Memphis wh... (more)