CN hadn't run anything on the Cedar Rapids Branch since 12/23. After a couple days of heavy wind and some snow from the last storm, the branch was drifted in pretty good in a few spots. An extra c... (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)
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)
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 ADM shuttle corn train heads down the Cedar Rapids Sub as the day comes to an ends. This train will deliver to the CIC who will deliver the train to the ADM plant on the southwest side of Ceda... (more)
The Cedar Rapids local normally works Monday thru Saturday, but today, on Sunday, they ran an extra to stay current. Today's trip the 2nd unit went bad at Central City and had to be setout. So the... (more)
The CN local out of Cedar Rapids to Manchester and back has a wedge plow with them on the way to Manchester. Here the crew plows thru some drifts at MP 4, near Manchester. The CN has no issues run... (more)
With all the hard work done going north, the Cedar Rapids local heads back south towards Cedar Rapids with ease. Not much to plow now other than what was left over from the trip north, but enough ... (more)
Due to badorder power the Cedar Rapids local started in Waterloo today to get their power. They then ran lit over to Manchester and picked up 20 cars and headed south to Cedar Rapids. A local over... (more)
With a plow on the front and back of the consist the Cedar Rapids local makes its way north on the branch towards Manchester. Due to no turning facilities at Cedar Rapids the local has been bringi... (more)
