Work started last week on prepping this old bridge over Prairie Creek for replacement. The bridge gang has been working on the fills and culverts around the bridge to make it more accessible. With... (more)

Prep work is about done on this bridge at Masonville on the CN Dubuque Sub. Work started in March to replace this wood bridge over Prairie Creek. Here, 338 has slowed to 25mph as they cross this o... (more)

Back in 2021, the 2nd straight weekend 338 got us out of the house for some fan favorite power on a Sunday. The daily CN Waterloo to Kirk Yard freight crossing Prairie Creek with KCS power. KCS po... (more)

NS 8103, the Norfolk and Western heritage unit, led CN's M338 across their Iowa Division on Memorial Day 2021, seen here near Masonville, IA.

338 makes the daily trek towards Kirk Yard with a morning departure out of Waterloo. Here the train passes over Prairie Creek just outside of Masonville, about 40 mile east of Waterloo. Not alot o... (more)

338 makes the daily trek towards Kirk Yard with morning departure out of Waterloo. Here the train passes over Prairie Creek just outside of Masonville, about 40 mile east of Waterloo. Not alot of ... (more)

The CN continues to get rail in place In Iowa as fall approaches.The CN has over 57 miles of replacement steel they like to get in before winter sets in. This rail train is heading to the Cedar Ra... (more)

One thing about Midwest winter's is things get screwed up and late. In Chicago things have been a struggle to get 337 out of Kirk Yard and thru Chicago in a timely fashion. Which means 337 has bee... (more)

338 makes the daily trek towards Kirk Yard with a noon departure out of Waterloo. Here the train passes over Prairie Creek just outside of Masonville, about 40 mile east of Waterloo. Not alot of o... (more)

A loaded grain train out of Ida Grove, IA, bound for Helvetia, LA, for unloading, rolls east on the CN Dubuque Sub at sunset. The train is seen here passing thru Masonville, about 40 miles east of... (more)

Something I will never see again: a WC GP40 leading an empty BNSF coal train from Dubuque, IA - Waterloo, IA.

Westbound for Waterloo, M33791 heads west in the early morning sun.

The Chicago - Waterloo long-distance local heads west after working at Farley, Dyersville and Delaware, IA.

The Waterloo - Chicago eastbound local has just met its westbound counterpart at the Beth siding. Next stop is the large VeraSun ethanol plant at Dyersville, IA for 2+ hours of work.

Due to serious damage to the Ottumwa Sub with all the flooding around Burlington, IA, the BNSF has had to reroute and detour a bunch of trains. The CN finally had a crew to move a BNSF detour from... (more)