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)
We're high above Joliet as an Iowa Interstate Blue Island, IL to Council Bluffs, IA road freight makes its way out of downtown. The train is seen crossing CSX Bridge 407 and the Des Plaines River.... (more)
The famed IAIS 513 leading train SIBI across the Des Plaines River via Bridge 407 in Joliet.
IAIS 513 leads BICB-11 towards Oxford, Iowa.
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)
The Rock Island heritage unit is in charge of the morning Iowa Interstate eastbound as it crosses Bridge 407 in Joliet. The Silvis-Blue Island train is exiting CSX New Rock Sub trackage and enteri... (more)
IAIS 513, the Rock Island heritage ES44AC and a regular IAIS ES44AC scream up the hill past Marley Road on a July summer morning.
Just after Amtrak 300 rolls north over the diamonds, the morning eastbound Iowa Interstate freight, IAIS SIBI (Silvis, IL - Blue Island, IL) heads east past UD tower in Downtown Joliet. Leading th... (more)
IAIS 513, the Rock Island heritage unit, leads SIBI East past the Metra depot at Tinley Park 80th Avenue.
On the final stretch of SIPEs journey, the two GPs & a GEVO can be seen here crawling along the city’s riverfront commercial area.
On a scorching hot summer morning, IAIS’s SIPE grain train screams into Putnam, IL with two GPs & a semi-broken GEVO for power.
SIBI cruises east through Tinley Park about to head under Interstate 80 with the Rock Island Heritage unit leading another IAIS ES44AC.
SIBI screams up the hill past Briggs Street with the Rock Island Heritage unit leading another IAIS ES44AC.
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)
