The NS Elkhart, IN, connection to the UP at Chicago, IL, makes its way across Iowa enroute to North Platte, NE. Seen here crossing the Wapsipinicon River about 35 miles west of Clinton.

Iowa Interstate train BICB (Blue Island, Illinois, to Council Bluffs, Iowa) soars over Graybill Creek just east of Hillis between Atlantic and Hancock, Iowa, on April 12, 2016. Leading the train i... (more)

Westbound at Hancock, IA.

When the weather turns cold, the track has alot of strain put on it with the contracting steel. Many joints can come apart, as is the case here at MP 268.4 on the CN Dubuque Sub. M337 has slowed d... (more)

The Kansas City, MO, to St. Paul, MN, manifest train is seen here working north towards Ottumwa. The train is crossing the middle Foster Bridge that spans 965 feet over Soap Creek in Monroe County... (more)

The CN turn crosses Cedar Lake while working around town.

Boy isn't very often you find a good looking CP GE. Here a loaded oil train head down river out of Dubuque with a 8920 on the rear end in DP. The signal in front of the unit is the distant approac... (more)

The Mason City to Davenport local freight coast as they cross the Turkey River at the siding named after the river. Today's train is not real big and a couple veteran SD40's handle the business. T... (more)

An SD38-2 / GP38-2 lashup with about 50 cars crosses I-80 heading east towards Des Moines as the competition passes below on a bitterly cold February day.

An eastbound Union Pacific stack train passes over the new Kate Shelley Bridge west of Boone, Iowa, on May 21, 2014. The old bridge is still seen just south and behind the new double track span ov... (more)

Passing over a bridge on the BNSF Creston Sub. on the west side of its namesake town is BNSF Train E PEKNAM0 77. The clouds in the background are a precursor to what the afternoon was to bring (a... (more)

CNW 8637 crosses the Boyer River near Dunlap, IA.

The Dubuque to Manchester turn local is done with their work at Dyersville downtown. The power sits on the bridge over the North Fork of the Maquoketa River just west of downtown. Now the crew wil... (more)

A loaded coal from Eagle Butte Mine, WY, bound for unloading at Juliette, GA, for Georgia Power's Scherer plant crosses the Tarkio River in southwestern Iowa. This train is currently working the r... (more)

IAIS 701 brings up the rear of the Train Festival's twice daily round-trip excursion to Walcott. NKP 765 pulled the train west to Walcott and the 701 was used to pull the train back to Rock Islan... (more)