Around a decade ago, the CRIP station signs on this line fell and made way for these new IANR ones, but soon, they too will likely fall in the wake of CN's takeover of the Iowa Northern Railway. ... (more)

IC 3115 & IC 9622 lead the charge of CN L56591-11 as they work their way westbound up and out of the Mississippi River Valley, darting under the old Highway 20 overpass in the Julien neighborhood ... (more)

UP 6939 leads UP MCLCL (now abolished/replaced by MPRMT) as it heads westbound on the east side of Clarence, IA. I've got to say, it was nice to see a freshly rebuilt AC60. Those who know me know ... (more)

BNSF 7601 and three other GEVOs creep H BRCKCK across the flyover on the southern end of BNSF's massive Galesburg, IL Yard, through control point West Waterman, and onto the Graham Cutoff toward G... (more)

CN 8903 and a crusty old C44-9WL lead a southbound manifest on the former DMIR Interstate line, descending down the ~2.2%(?) grade of Steelton Hill into Gary/New Duluth, MN. In the far background ... (more)

UP 9009 and a pair of GEs take this MALNP(?) southbound past the old CRI&P interlocker in downtown Albert Lea, MN on UP's Spine Line. This is the last standing interlocking tower left in the state... (more)

GTW 4619, one of a small handful of remaining Grand Trunk GP9Rs on CN's roster, leads L5-who-knows-what southbound past the old C&NW depot in downtown Green Bay, WI. This depot used to serve the F... (more)

CP 8846 leads DDG grain train CP 374, heading south on the CP Marquette Subdivision through the beautiful street running trackage in Bellevue, Iowa.

UP 6498 leads empty coal train CP 812 southbound through McGregor, IA during the later hours of a very blustery Saturday morning. Taken on the CP Marquette Subdivision.

Empty ethanol train CN U705 rolls by just east of Manchester, IA. The lights from the crossing gate illuminate stray snowflakes whipped up by the passing freight train.

CN 5433 (Ex-Oakway, EMD SD60) on L56391 17 pulls a cut of boxcars out from International Paper on the last remaining stretch of Waterloo, Cedar Falls, & Northern trackage in the Cedar Rapids area.

NS 4016 & 1013 lead X33781 into downtown Cedar Rapids as they prepare to cut 40 hoppers and bring the remaining 35 to the Quaker Oats cereal plant. As you may have guessed, these hoppers are full ... (more)

BJRY 1513A and 1513B drag their train southward, up and down the curvy, grade-filled trackage that is the Burlington Junction Railway in Quincy, IL. The sound of these guys working was worth the t... (more)

CN 5346 (EMD SD40-2W) and 5456 (EMD SD60) lead L56391-22 southbound at H Ave NE in Cedar Rapids, IA, passing by the iconic (or "eye"-conic?) Fox Eye sign just off of interstate 380. Take... (more)

FXE 2046 (EMD GP38-2) leads CP 2WCM-09 northbound over CN trackage past CN's Dubuque Yard. This is by far one of the most unprecedented movements I've seen in my entire life. If you'd told me a mo... (more)