Unit Ethanol Train from Charles City, IA - Chicago Clearing Extra crossing a typical muddy Midwest River.

The BNSF delivered this empty grain train to East Dubuque, IL from the west. After the power was run around to the west end of the train, a CN crew took it west across the Mississippi River Bridg... (more)

A 7,900 foot extra Nahant to Kansas City Manifest train is about to start pouring on the coals to start the tough climb out of the river valley towards Moravia, IA. The train is crossing the far w... (more)

JS8419, built by Datong (China) in 1988, rolls across the Des Moines River with a train headed back to Boone. The steel supports on the side of the bridge held the poles for the overhead wire of ... (more)

A Mallard grain train is back on the move towards Moorland after waiting over a hour for traffic to clear up around Callender. The train is passing over Lizard Creek and is couple miles from Tara.... (more)

2 units, 9 empty covered hoppers, and a flag is all that makes up LTZ 56 today as they head south towards the ethanol plant at Jewell. LTZ 56 is crossing Eagle Creek just north of Woolstock.

Merchandise Train from St. Paul - Kansas City passes the Alliant Energy Lansing Generating Station.

GTW 5858 a ex RI GP38-2 running on a branch of M&StL track

A Fulton, KY to Waterloo, IA grain empty heads west over the frozen Wapsipinicon River at Independence.

Even though the Rock Island has been gone for 26+ years, small clues of its once great past still exist. Note the similarities in the bridge logo with the nose logo.

We may be on the right track today but it was a very cold track. When LSN started the day at Sanborn this morning the wind chill was a "warm" -23 below!

Heading for Kansas City, this IC&E train is crossing the far east bridge of the 3 bridges near Foster, IA.

The westbound CNW's pass over an aged bridge that barley still show once what was.