An eastbound stack train enters the Boone Subdivision off of the Omaha Subdivision at Missouri Valley. The 7026 is one of the locomotives Union Pacific ordered in the late 90's from GE with the in... (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.

It's March of 1996 and big changes are to come along the former C&NW mainline in western Iowa. C&NW had single-tracked the railroad west of Dennison, IA and it had become quite a bottleneck that U... (more)

UP 4760 and NS 2683, an SD70M-2, lead a westbound through Missouri Valley, IA upon a winter afternoon.

If bleak it is nevertheless a relatively mild winter day as a double-stack train gets underway after a crew change in Missouri Valley, IA.

A variety of older Union Pacific power awaits an uncertain fate in the Missouri Valley, Iowa yard. Within are SD60Ms, C40-8s, C40-8Ws, C44-9Ws, and a few other oddballs.

On May 22, 2014, two strings of Union Pacific EMD SD9043MACs are stored in the yard at Missouri Valley, Iowa, waiting out an uncertain fate.

A 4-pack of General Electric units lead a Union Pacific intermodal Eastbound across Iowa.

Empty coal buckets with an SD50 leading an SD60 are approaching Missouri Valley, IA on the single track in 1989.

Three of UP's SD90MAC's are on an "APL" train awaiting a crew at Missouri Valley, IA. These 6000hp units lasted just 10 years on the roster.

C&NW's single tracking of the main line in western Iowa had resulted in a real choke point for traffic as coal and intermodal business increased and, with the merger, UP promptly began adding a se... (more)

On the morning of August 16, 2012, Union Pacific GE AC4460CW (a 4,400 h.p. locomotive that was to be converted to 6,000 h.p., but this never happened) No. 7042 passes new trackwork being installed... (more)

As part of a double track project from milepost 331.58 to 334.79 between Missouri Valley and Blair, Iowa, crews also work on repairs and upgrades to the stone abutments for the bridges over Allen ... (more)

An eastbound Union Pacific freight slowly passes through a track capacity addition at Allen Creek, Iowa, while welders work on doing two field welds on track being changed. A siding, along with ex... (more)

Union Pacific welders work on a track capacity addition at Allen Creek between Missouri Valley and California Junction, Iowa, on August 15, 2012. They are in the middle of doing two field welds on... (more)