The CN ran their Jordan Spreader down their 42 miles Cedar Rapids Sub on Thursday February 21. The job worked at pushing back drifts along this branch. Winter has been pretty steady in this part o... (more)

The CN ran their Jordan Spreader down their 42 miles Cedar Rapids Sub on Thursday February 21. The job worked at pushing back drifts along this branch. Winter has been pretty steady in this part o... (more)

The CN ran their Jordan Spreader down their 42 miles Cedar Rapids Sub on Thursday February 21. The job worked at pushing back drifts along this branch. Winter has been pretty steady in this part o... (more)

2 CN Units!!!! That how exciting it has been to get consists like this in Iowa this year on CN. Power short problems has seen CN use a ton of foreign and leased units in Iowa. Here an empty grain ... (more)

Another storms hits Iowa today. An unusual southerly breeze allowed for me to shoot the southside today, so I took advantage. Here the daily Kirk Yard freight train out of Waterloo rolls thru the ... (more)

A loaded ethanol train out of western Iowa rolls east of the CN Dubuque Sub. The train is about 10 miles east of Waterloo as they roll over the hogback territory. 3 NS units will go thru with the ... (more)

The 3pm Oelwein Crew slowly pokes along towards Fairbanks as the next winter storm pours on the snow. The crew is currently between Dewar and Dunkerton with 3 cars. This job mainly does work at Du... (more)

The Iowa Northern has been working towards getting themselves better setup for winter weather. The railroad purchased 2 plows to help keep the railroad open. Here a crew gets the Jordan Spreader s... (more)

The Iowa Northern has been working towards getting themselves better setup for winter weather. The railroad purchased 2 plows to help keep the railroad open. Unfortunately moisture in the air line... (more)

With heavy snow and strong winds, the L567 local covered the CN 5455 on their Manchester turn the night before. A clean unit was needed in Cedar Rapids today for the L563 local. So the crew cabbed... (more)

The South St. Paul, MN, to North Platte, NE, freight rolls out of Argon after meeting a coal train. The train passes the restored Mills Tower here at Iowa Falls. Mills Tower is now on the National... (more)

A DP unit shoves on the back on this empty coal train from Baldwin, IL, for Dynegy's Baldwin Plant, to Belle Ayr Mine, WY. The crew on this empty still has 174 miles across southern Iowa to reach ... (more)

A person has to dig around to find gravestones that date back to the 1900's. With really old gravestones the dates of death usually have "years, months, days" on them. Here the Galesburg... (more)

The daily St. Paul to Kansas City freight for CP is on their way down Rutledge Hill into Ottumwa. The train will cross the BNSF Ottumwa Sub, then cross the Des Moines River, before a crew change i... (more)

In their 20th year, CP annual holiday train works along the Mississippi River spreading Christmas cheer and good will. The train dashes thru the snow here just north of Le Claire on the Davenport ... (more)