An empty set of empty coal hoppers glisten as they round a curve to cross old Highway 30 and the "Spine," on their way to the Powder River Basin.

A pair of GE's grind their way eastbound, crossing the "Spine" and old Highway 30, with another load of PRB coal, as the sun lowers in the western sky.

ICE 6453 hog-backs on one of the many grades in NE Iowa with a KCS Bullet Train.

A Union Pacific manifest glides in front of a nice sunset in the flats of Middle Iowa.

Kicking up snow as CCHU rolls west.

M-MCDQ heads towards a meet at the Ossian Siding as it passes by the transload site for windmill parts at the Bruening Siding.

A windmill parts train with a section of CWR moves west after passing through Postville.

A rare SD20 sits dead, patiently waiting the next assignment in the Prairie DuChein Yard.

After blasting through Beaver, these ACCTE's keep the empties rolling toward Grand Junction, Iowa.

K Line Stack reaches track speed again after going through Grand Junction, Iowa.

A KCS "Bullet Train" with 1 AC4400CW and 2 SD40-2s lug 69 loads up the Calmar Hill and barely make it.

2 SD70M's, 1 SD60 and a SD70ACe make up this all EMD consist.

An coal empty with UP 2882 (a patched Rio Grande SD40T-2R) second in consist.

UP 2995 Cruises through the MOW work zone and prepares to take the crossover at Grand Junction and go North towards Fort Dodge... Note ICE SD45 363 in the middle of the power lashup.

Iowa Northern 3804 eases down the old CNW sectional track at 10 M.P.H. getting ready to pickup empty grain hoppers from the Ethanol Plant just down the track