Iowa Northern power comes to the CN HARRIS Shops in Homewood. On January 14th of 2025 the Surface Transportation Board approved the acquisition of the Iowa Northern by CN. The unit await transport... (more)

Iowa Northern GP40-3 4100 sits in Wallace Yard in Freeport. With CN's recent takeover of the IANR, some IANR power has been getting reassigned to other parts of the CN system.

A former L&N Geep returns to Manly Yard in northern Iowa. The Iowa Northern Railway operated from 1981 to 2025 on 175 miles of trackage within the midwestern state. In 2023, Canadian National anno... (more)

One if the many CNW unit trains that IANR handled for the CNW to move retired power out of Oelwein. Behind IANR and a CNW GP 50 for power, 25 GP7s and GP9s were moved out of Waterloo bound for Ced... (more)

Digging to the Wayback Machine. In the early 90s I was only 15-17 years old. I am pretty happy to find some of my prints and get them looking ok. They aren't perfect, but they're better than nothi... (more)

The Waterloo switcher is on its way across Waterloo from the CN yard to the IANR Bryant Yard with cars from the CN. The job will line cars and switch out at Bryant Yard before heading back to the ... (more)

The normal 8am Butler crew did their normal operations today by driving to Bryant Yard in Waterloo and running a train back to Butler. Here, the crew is just off the CN at Cedar Falls Jct. and rol... (more)

With the official takeover date of March 1, 2025, I have been out trying to shoot the Iowa Northern as the CN makes changes to the railroad. Job changes came first in March, and now power changes ... (more)

With the official takeover date of March 1, 2025, I have been out trying to shoot the Iowa Northern as the CN makes changes to the railroad. Job changes came first in March, and now power changes ... (more)

With the official takeover date of March 1, 2025, I have been out trying to shoot the Iowa Northern as the CN makes changes to the railroad. Job changes came first in March, and now power changes ... (more)

With the official takeover date of March 1, 2025, I have been out trying to shoot the Iowa Northern as the CN makes changes to the railroad. Job changes came first in March, and now power changes ... (more)

With the official takeover date of March 1, 2025, I have been out trying to shoot the Iowa Northern as the CN makes changes to the railroad. Job changes came first in March, and now power changes ... (more)

With the official takeover date of March 1, 2025, I have been out trying to shoot the Iowa Northern as the CN makes changes to the railroad. Job changes came first in March, and now power changes ... (more)

Back in 2024, the daily Butler to Waterloo local (BUWA) began the day switching cars out on the south end of Butler. The crew would have over 3 hours of work before heading south with cars for the... (more)

The Manly Switcher is using the MABU's power to switch out the yard at Manly. IANR has enough business to base a switcher here back in 2024.