In March major flooding went on with the Missouri River around Omaha and south. The BNSF Creston Sub was out of service during the flooding. During this time Amtrak's California Zephyr was schedu... (more)

A empty grain from Dalhart TX, to Sterling, IL, passes the iconic coaling tower at DeKalb on the UP Geneva Sub. Glad UP went and painted alot of these older AC coal motors, they look nice now in t... (more)

A empty grain from Dalhart TX, to Sterling, IL, passes the iconic coaling tower at DeKalb on the UP Geneva Sub. Glad UP went and painted alot of these older AC coal motors. They look nice now in t... (more)

2019's winter was a tough one for all the railroads in the Midwest. A major storm hit on Saturday February 23rd. The storm dump rain, ice, and snow, followed by blizzard like winds. B41 left out o... (more)

2019's winter in Iowa was a pretty tough one for the railroads, especially in March. Sunday night's Canadian Pacific's B-41 local left Mason City around 2am with a wedge plow and 69 cars. Multiple... (more)

One of the bigger customer on the line west of Mason City is this AGP plant outside of Emmetsburg. This plant has been always a big producer of soybean meal and this railroad (IMRL/ICE/DME/CP) has... (more)

Emery is where the Iowa Traction is based with a yard and a few customers. Alot of operations happen more in Mason City around the AGP plant, so I was happy to get some rare mileage for me. The IA... (more)

The Iowa River Railroad has just setout their inbound cars for the CN to the north end of the interchange tracks and now will head to the other end for a pickup. This crew doesn't take long to get... (more)

The Iowa River Railroad has just setout their inbound cars for the CN to the north end of the interchange tracks at Ackley. Soon they'll run to the other end to pickup and head back home. This cre... (more)

Freight as far as the eye can see! This Proviso to Des Moines junker looks like they pulled everything out of Proviso they could find and headed west. The train lumbers along thru Clarence on the ... (more)

In late March major flooding went on with the Missouri River around Omaha and south, the BNSF Creston Sub is out of service. March 21st was the 1st day Amtrak's California Zephyr was scheduled to ... (more)

The UP route thru Iowa has always been well known for the ATC signal territory. The ATC meant that only a CNW, or now days, an UP motor could lead on trains. With the coming PTC changes on all rai... (more)

In March major flooding went on with the Missouri River around Omaha and south, the BNSF Creston Sub is out of service. The BNSF ran a ton of detours over the UP main thru Iowa with this closure. ... (more)

The Waterloo to Kirk Yard daily freight train has a pair of BNSF units for power today. Here the train works hard over the hogbacks between Raymond and Jesup on the CN Dubuque Sub. The train is o... (more)

The sound of 2 GP38's barking could be heard for a few minutes before the train showed up. Here the Dubuque local 565 climbs out of the Mississippi River Valley towards Peosta. The 10 mile hike up... (more)