CRANDIC Job 4 makes a rare run down the Amana Line that usually sees IAIS trains, but on this rare occasion the CIC ran a ballast train dumping where ties have been replaced within the past few da... (more)

IANR 458 leads a rather late CRWA into Waterloo on a hot July Day. This is a rare move on the CR sub as most trains run in backlit, but this day an Xtra CRWA crew was called for 1317 to bring CRWA... (more)

Iowa River 3802 crosses a rural road with ethanol cars from the CN bound for the Pine Lake Corn Processors plant north of Steamboat Rock

Iowa Interstate 6988 turns its wheels for the first time in 2 years after some time in storage due to COVID. The hard working crew has just finished putting the locomotive back together for upcomi... (more)

IAIS 6988 is close to completing its first maintenance run as it rounds the curve outside of Newton Iowa.

6988 pulls its cut of cars towards the east siding switch so IAIS 708 can couple on the rear and begin its shakedown run to South Amana and return.

CRANDIC Job 4 pulls Stutsman cars down Maiden Lane in Iowa City. CIC 132 and slug 126 is the last MP15 slug set that CRANDIC has active, as the CIC mainly uses the L4-1500XDs built by Relco for jo... (more)

A few days ago a blizzard hit Central and Eastern Iowa leaving the entire area covered in another blanket of snow making drifts of 3ft+. With the CRANDIC attempting to plow the line themselves and... (more)

IANR 4001 brings a plow extra for the CIC through downtown Cedar Rapids having just entered CIC property. The plow is enroute to the Amana Line which has rumored locomotive high drifts between Wal... (more)

CP 475 heads north between Green Island and Bellevue in the first snow of the season.

On a beautiful 4th of July morning Iowa Interstate threw a few oddball trains on the railroad. The railroad usually shuts down on holidays and only had 2 Council Bluffs Switchers scheduled to run ... (more)

After almost an hour in Kellogg repairing the power reverser bolt, 6988 highballs west towards Newton where they will tie down for the night before their trip to South Amana and return the next da... (more)

SOO 4412 and CP 2319 sit in the Savanna Yard waiting for their next assignment as the lights of of CP train 681 add some light on the nose of 4412.

With a derailment in Ames Iowa the previous day traffic has been slow on the Double Main in Iowa. A surprise that after was a line up of 3 westbounds out of Clinton. The last train was the hotshot... (more)

CNs Track Geometry RDC heads down the Cedar Rapids Sub just south of Manchester Iowa. The trip down to Cedar Rapids is a deadhead move and when they get to CR the crew will flip ends and inspect t... (more)