The 1st crew for this Mason City to Spencer B41 local spent all night switching in Mason and building 111 car outbound train. Then B42 cabbed in from Spencer at 7am to take the train west. Almost ... (more)

The 1st crew for this Mason City to Spencer B41 local spent all night switching in Mason and building 111 car outbound train. Then B42 cabbed in from Spencer at 7am to take the train west. Almost ... (more)

The Savanna to Mason City local pulls into Mason City Yard on #1 track. The crew will make a simple double over to #2 track to put the train away. This is the 2nd crew on this train out of Marquet... (more)

The Savanna to Mason City local pulls into Mason City Yard on #1 track. The crew will make a simple double over to #2 track to put the train away. This is the 2nd crew on this train out of Marquet... (more)

Land barge...that's pretty much what the PSR UP looks like now days. Miles and miles of tonnage and couple engines to pull it slowly. The LA to Global 2 stacker, that's 4 days into the trip, is wo... (more)

In somewhat odd circumstances today....the Iowa Northern helped out the CRANDIC Railroad to plow open their Amana Line so the IAIS could get service back between Cedar Rapids and South Amana. With... (more)

Alittle heritage can still be found along the Iowa Northern's Oelwein Sub between Waterloo and Oelwein. This was the Chicago Great Western's mainline to Kansas City from Oelwein. The CGW once had ... (more)

The Iowa Northern's Jordan works north on the Oelwein Sub towards Oelwein. Past Fairbank the trains haven't been over the line since the last wind storm. The drifts were pretty minor for the middl... (more)

The Iowa Northern's Jordan Spreader is at the end of the line. They are a few miles north of Oelwein and stopped short of highway 3. North of here is just the elevator tracks for Viafield on this ... (more)

CN finally found some people and power today to run an extra plow job out of Waterloo. The crew is working drifts on the Dubuque Sub to Manchester and the Cedar Rapids Sub to Cedar Rapids. The dri... (more)

CN finally found some people and power today to run an extra plow job out of Waterloo. The crew is working drifts on the Dubuque Sub to Manchester and the Cedar Rapids Sub to Cedar Rapids. The dri... (more)

Winter is starting to set in alittle in early 2021. A winter storm is just finishing up dumping 7 inches of snow along with some wind. As you can see the drifts still aren't there on the Dubuque S... (more)

The daily Kirk Yard to Waterloo manifest train kicks up a ton of snow as they make their way the last 10 miles into Waterloo. The train dips thru the hogback near Canfield Rd east of Raymond on th... (more)

Nice sunny winter morning, even got a clean leader, but there seems to be that 1 thing that can just ruin it, and we have a nice black POS today!. An Osage Sub grain train bound for Reserve, LA, r... (more)

Only 10 minutes behind the CN local 571, the IANR's North Crew splits from the CN at Cedar Falls and head north on the Manly Sub next to a partly frozen Cedar River. The job is a healthy 88 cars t... (more)