The Iowa Southern Railway's local job makes its way south out of Albia, Iowa where it picked up interchange with BNSF and heads towards Moravia. An SW1500 and GP7 lead the train as it crosses over... (more)

UP suffered a major derailment on their Mason City Sub at Hampton, IA on Labor Day. While clean up takes place the Iowa Northern has taken a bunch of southbound detours from Manly to Cedar Rapids... (more)

A rail train is done dumping rail north of Kains siding on the CP Marquette Sub. The job will setout the threader car on the Rugged Rock track next at MP 133. Plan "A", with warranties i... (more)

The Savanna, IL, to Mason City, IA, local is quite busy on the Marquette Sub tonight. At Dubuque, they did the interchange work with the CN before picking up over 70 cars setout by 475 the night b... (more)

CN Local making its way back from Illinois after serving local industries.

A solo Union Pacific ET44AC leads a southbound loaded ethanol train as it departs from Des Moines, Iowa on the Trenton Subdivision. After getting the light across the Iowa Interstate and BNSF diam... (more)

A rebuilt AC4400CW sits with a westbound stack train on the Boyer River bridge as it waits for a couple of eastbounds out of Council Bluffs to clear the single track south of Missouri Valley, IA.

The daily St. Paul to KC freight train for the CP is fresh on the Marquette Sub as they leave LaCrescent behind. The train passes over the Root River and some of the back waters around MP 156. Ab... (more)

The CB&Q originally built across the Missouri Rive back in 1880. The Burlington and Missouri River Railroad had reached Plattsmouth in 1870 while working west from Creston towards Lincoln. The CB&... (more)

With UP and BNSF power on the point, Canadian Pacific manifest freight 261 gets on the move north out of Ottumwa, IA after completing its work at the yard. With a clear signal across the diamond w... (more)

With the Rock Island heritage leading a seven unit consist, the Iowa Interstate's BICB gets on the move out of Iowa City, Iowa after holding to meet the 6988 steam special. The train is crossing o... (more)

A trio of standard cab EMD's lead BNSF's Galesburg to Des Moines manifest H GALDMO1 11A as it rolls over the bridge spanning the Des Moines River in Ottumwa, Iowa. A recrew boarded back in town fo... (more)

Canadian Pacific's St. Paul to Kansas City manifest freight 260 cruises south across curved trestle in Foster, Iowa. This is the middle bridge of the three trestles that make up the "Foster B... (more)

IAIS 6988 steams across the Cedar River into Moscow with 2100 tons of freight in tow.

CNW 6888 leads a Falcon across the swollen Cedar River in Cedar Rapids, IA in August of 1993. Once a gauntlet bridge, it is single track in this photo. A bottleneck for traffic for many years, the... (more)