The Cedar Rapids local is helping get the G841 out of town for Waterloo. Next task will be deliver 6 cars to the UP. This job mainly works in Cedar Rapids area 5-6 days a week during the daylight.... (more)

The daily Waterloo to Sioux City Local is working the UP interchange track at Iowa Falls. The train is sitting high over top the Iowa River. In the background is the UP's Spineline which this loca... (more)

A loaded grain train out of Alta, IA, is stretched out in the Iowa countryside. Not much to do with this guy eastbound in the afternoon, but the FURX cars make for a nice white line over the Iowa ... (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)

Somewhat odd leader passes thru Dubuque on a southbound CP sand train. CP runs alot of these sand trains from the BNSF at KC to loading facilities around Tunnel City, WI, and then back to the BNSF... (more)

About 5 miles south of Potosi is where the Platte River where dumps into the Mississippi River. The BNSF Aurora Sub crosses the river on a little causeway near the Banfield Saddle area. Here the G... (more)

About 5 miles south of Potosi is where the Platte River where dumps into the Mississippi River. The BNSF Aurora Sub crosses the river on a little causeway near the Banfield Saddle area. Here the C... (more)

Somewhat unusual consist for the BNSF, this Northtown Yard to Belt Clearing Yard manifest train has a couple SD70Ace's on the point. The train is seen here gradually moving south along the back wa... (more)

An empty ethanol train bound for Mona, IA, works west on the Mason City Sub. The train is currently between Luana and Postville as it snakes around to follow the ridge lines to minimum grades in n... (more)

Out in northeast Iowa is a mountain of a grade on the Mason City Sub. The Calmar Hill is a 1.4% grade that runs for about 4 miles between Fort Atkinson and Calmar. The area is mostly inaccessible,... (more)

For many years the BNSF had this Columbia Coal contract out of the PBR in Wyoming. Trains were ran to St. Paul for interchange with the CP for the plant near Portage, WI. Now the UP has the contra... (more)

A loaded sand train out of Tunnel City, WI, from the Unimin Corporation transverses the back waters along the Mississippi River. The train is bound for unloading at Loving, NM, south of Carlsbad. ... (more)

An eastbound auto rack train rolls east of the Moberly to Decatur section of the NS in north-central Missouri. The train is passing the west end of the 1st siding outside of Moberly at Holliday, 1... (more)

An 70ACe pushes on the back of this empty coal train as they work thru central Iowa on the UP's North Platte to Chicago corridor. The train is 109 miles west of Clinton as they pass thru the small... (more)

When KCS got these AC's new in December 1999 they made some trips over the BNSF probably to pay back horse power hours. A pair of them power this loaded coal train towards Galesburg. Seen here in ... (more)