The Wimmer Special is led by the Centennial between Ames and Jordan, IA this morning.

This westbound empty has just taken a lunar indication at the East Ames crossovers, and is closely following a manifest that had just started moving towards Boone.

UP 6002 pauses at Scholl Road in Ames to change crews. Usually trains head into Boone for change-outs, but there was a backup of westbounds today.

A westbound stacker kicks up the snow near Ames, IA. Canon Digital Rebel

UP 6025 leads a K-Line stacker towards Boone, IA this evening.

UP GEVO 5698 is the DPU on a Wisconsin-bound WPSX coal train. This is the first time I have seen a GEVO come out of the Blue Mountains to the midwest. Heads up for this unit, it went up the Spin... (more)

UP 4337 heads up a westbound manifest on the E/W main near Ames.

UP 4662 leads what is obviously a CSX-bound stacker over Squaw Creek.

UPY 741 backs across the Squaw Creek bridge while switching Skei Coal in downtown Ames.

UP 5915 leads an Oak Creek, WI bound coal train past College Farm Hill in Ames, IA. The location is called College Farm because off to the left in the distance is the campus of Iowa State Univers... (more)

A UP C44ACCTE leads a coal load towards Hazel Ave. in Ames, IA. Canon Digital Rebel