After almost an hour in Kellogg repairing the power reverser bolt, 6988 highballs west towards Newton where they will tie down for the night before their trip to South Amana and return the next da... (more)

As a pop up thunderstorm passes to the east, Iowa Interstate 6988 has completed its first maintenance run between Kellogg and Newton as it pulls into the yard so the crew can make some adjustments... (more)

Iowa Interstate 6988 turns its wheels for the first time in 2 years after some time in storage due to COVID. The hard working crew has just finished putting the locomotive back together for upcomi... (more)

The sun has started to break out as the 1100 Newton Switcher crew brings BICB east out of Ladora Iowa. Trailing on this days BICB is a N&S GP60 and a GMTX (ex KCS) cab end Switcher. The NS GP70 is... (more)

On a beautiful 4th of July morning Iowa Interstate threw a few oddball trains on the railroad. The railroad usually shuts down on holidays and only had 2 Council Bluffs Switchers scheduled to run ... (more)

The 0630 SACR rolls into the CRANDICs "950" yard with a nice lash up of 2 GEVOs and 3 GEEPs. The Interstate Car Man helps out the 0630 giving the conductor a ride to line switches so the... (more)

With a derailment in Ames Iowa the previous day traffic has been slow on the Double Main in Iowa. A surprise that after was a line up of 3 westbounds out of Clinton. The last train was the hotshot... (more)

Norfolk Southern train 148 heads east through downtown Hannibal Missouri passing the ballpark on the south side of town.

Over the past few weeks the usual east and west trains on the IAIS have been running on a new schedule to accommodate a tie project going on on the Iowa City Subdivision making for nice afternoon ... (more)

IC 9618 and a SD60 brings L567 over the Wapsi in Central City on its run to Manchester.

BNSF 6866 leads U FTLPAD1 15M out of Colona Illinois with a military train on a bright spring afternoon in the Quad Cities.

Iowa Interstate 515 with the daily westbound enters Iowa crossing the Arsenal Bridge over the Mighty Mississippi. As of recently BICB has been an afternoon run across the Iowa City Subdivision wit... (more)

Union Pacific's 53 Job known to railfans as "The Drag" brings a cut of cars from UP's North Yard in Cedar Rapids to Beverly Yard on the south side of town. On the head end of the train i... (more)

CRSA climbs the grade from the CIC Amana Line back onto home tracks at East Switch Yocum with IAIS 513 as the leader.

Iowa Interstate 513 sporting its fine Rock Island livery pulls IAIS train CRSA out of Fairfax starting their 20 odd mile journey back to the Iowa Interstate's South Amana Yard.