Loaded Taconite for Two Harbors MN docks , Led by 3 GE C40-8s , Here they roll through Rollins Minnesota. As of 2024 these C40-8s will be replaced by rebuilt AC44's from CN

CN 3315 Leads a five unit mixed freight from Kirk Yard in Chicago Illinois to Waterloo Iowa. Here they crawl through the Southside of downtown Chicago after rain went through the area

METRA #425 Rock Island Heritage unit leads a train Southbound out of downtown Chicago on a warm last day of September

11pm - BNSF empty Coal Train passes the Holland Depot/Amtrak Station working its way back to Chicago Illinois with two leaders and 3 on the tail end and 128 empty cars

10pm Lightning and Storms at the IRM - Frisco 1630 Idles at the Illinois Railway Museum , waiting with passengers on board and waiting out the thunderstorm moving through the area.

CN M399 Westbound in Climax Michigan with the WC Heritage Unit leading and an M-2 trailing. Here they cross E. MN Ave ,bathed in sunlight as we watch through the tunnel of trees

Iowa Interstate RR rolls Eastbound through Malcom Iowa at sunset. The crossing was currently closed off due to road construction of the crossing

The Boone & Scenic Valley RR passenger train rolls over the Bass Point Creek High Bridge on the last return trip of the day from Boone , 8 miles North and back

10pm Northbound local LM394 Union Pacific rolls across the rickety old wood bridge over 1st ave. in downtown Grinnell Iowa with 3 UP units and 3 cars. This is a daily from Marshalltown IA that swi... (more)

Late evening Union Pacific Trio rolling, just North of Grinnell Iowa - This sub is off the main Clinton Sub that runs down South of downtown Grinnell

Sunset on the UP Trans Con - Union Pacific Ethanol train rolling Eastbound on the UP Clinton Sub in Legrand Iowa at sunset

Smokey skies , farms and Heritage units - CSX 911 Leads the daily M326 from Chicago to Grand Rapids with a new Marquette orange Geep trailing in the mix

UP Grain train, Westbound just before sunset, a lightning show was going on in the storm moving East in the background

Night time Westbound , Iowa Interstate rolls across the UP/Iowa Interstate diamond and in front of the old Rock Island Depot in Grinnell IA at 11pm. Five units in the lead , two IA GEVOs and3 BNSF... (more)

After sunset in South Amana Iowa - The Iowa Interstate SA yard at the East End