The 11 pm North Crew has about 5 miles left to get into Greene. At Greene another crew will jump aboard at 7am for the trip south towards Waterloo. Right now the North Crew only has 43 empties tha... (more)

I agree with someone's thought they put on this unit, it is a pretty dirty. These F40's the Iowa Northern newly acquired are fitting in well with the increase of traffic this shortline is experien... (more)

The North Crew is rolling along south of Packard. The next stop is Clarksville to pickup grain. The train has 43 cars of ethanol/DDG empties off the UP at Manly that goes back to Fairbank. The IAN... (more)

The North Crew has an empty potash train out of Waterloo as they head north. This is normal duties for the North Crew to move their train and potash trains when they showed up from the UP at Manly... (more)

With a hard winter and a pretty wet spring, the Iowa rivers and creeks have started to rise the past week as seen by the flooding in the fields south of Packard. The North Crew is about a mile fro... (more)

This is the old westbound signal for the Chicago Great Western to cross the Rock Island at Clarksville. Where the red lens once was, the North Crew is seen heading back out to the main after spott... (more)

The North Crew just got the 3pm crew aboard north of Cedar Falls, IA and is now on the move near Finchford. The train is moving along Buck Ridge Rd and will cross the West Fork of the Cedar River ... (more)

The North Crew is heading back south to Waterloo. They only made a Rock Falls turn today. They are heading back to Waterloo with mainly cars recieved from the ICE at Nora Springs.

The North Crew has just clear CN's North Industrial lead at West Waterloo and is in the process of getting these ponies up to 50 mph for the 6 miles trip over the CN to Cedar Falls Jct, where the ... (more)

Empty grain hoppers for different elevators along the IANR and loaded ethanol for the ICE or UP make up the north trip of the North Crew tonight. The train is rolling along at 25mph as they make t... (more)

The UP delivered a 100 car coal train to the Iowa Northern at Manly bound for the Cedar Falls Utility (CFU). The Iowa Northern rounded up 7 GP38's to handle the tonage for the 68 mile trip. Here t... (more)

The 3810 is crossing over the diamond with the IC&E's Mason City Sub at Nora Springs. The signal on the right use to be the absoulute signal for the diamond but a new signal was put in closer to t... (more)

The North Crew is passing some old Rock Island ABS signals as they start into Nora Springs. Almost all the signals along the Iowa Northern are either gone or have been turned and not used, but the... (more)

7 GP38's and 33 distiller grain cars for the UP makeup the northbound trip into Manly for the North Crew. Seen here pulling into Yard Limits the crew will setout the distiller grain and pickup gra... (more)

The North Crew has just stop at the diamond with IC&E at Plymouth Jct. The Iowa Northern rounded up 7 geeps to run up to Manly for a Cedar Falls coal train coming from the UP. This is the northbou... (more)