An empty grain train for the Iowa Northern races along the Dubuque Sub just west of Independence. The train is 22 miles from the interchange point with the IANR at Waterloo. New soybean plants at ... (more)

CN Z149 breaks the dense fog passing Durand Union Station, sprinting west ahead of Amtrak.

CN L507 is northbound at MAL Junction in Pontiac.

An empty ethanol train bound for western Iowa pulls out of the yard at Waterloo. The train is in the runaround which by-passes the yard to the north. This power will spot this empty and then will ... (more)

Hot stacks to help relieve the global supply chain issues and shortages move south on the CN Rainy Sub passing through the yard at Virginia, MN.

CN 400 heads east with CN 8916 and BCOL 4646 for power.

SD70M-2 8916 and GECX ET44AC 2035 pass through Lindbrook as the head east on the Wainwright Sub with Robert Bank, BC to Chicago, IL train 116.

SD70M-2 8916 and GECX ET44AC 2035 approach Poe as the head east on the Wainwright Sub with Robert Bank, BC to Chicago, IL train 116.

CN SD70M-2 8916 and SD60 5408 lead an empty coal train north on EVWR's St. Louis Sub at South Nations. It's headed back to home rails at Akin Junction on CN's Bluford Sub.

Its another freezing day as the the sun comes and goes. Winter is a coming as the days get shorter the light fades fast and the snow will soon be falling. The Daily CSX Q620 rounds the curve fly... (more)

An SD70M-2 and a Dash 9 grind uphill out of Joliet, with a heavy manifest that included two mid-train DPU's.

The sun rises above the horizon lumanting the 8916, and melting the frost off the ties at Rutter

M302 shuffles some power back to Edmonton, speeding east on the Edson Sub with a short 50 car train.

BNSF crew moves an empty ore train from Allouez (Superior, WI) to Stleeton Yard (Duluth, MN). CN and BNSF team up to move ore from U.S. Steel's Minntac plant to BNSF's ore factility in Superior. T... (more)

CN 8916 leads an All-Rail down the Missabe Sub towards Steelton for interchange to BNSF. The train is running with a DPU at the end, thus the newer power.