On February 16th the CN ran a plow extra out of Waterloo to push back the drifts that have occurred from the snowy and windy first few weeks of February. Here the plow extra crosses a rural crossi... (more)

IANR 4001 brings a plow extra for the CIC through downtown Cedar Rapids having just entered CIC property. The plow is enroute to the Amana Line which has rumored locomotive high drifts between Wal... (more)

A few days ago a blizzard hit Central and Eastern Iowa leaving the entire area covered in another blanket of snow making drifts of 3ft+. With the CRANDIC attempting to plow the line themselves and... (more)

Canadian Pacific train 474 a general merchandise freight between St Paul Minnesota and Kansas City Missouri rolls through the Muscatine Riverfront with Norfolk Southern's Wabash Heritage Unit numb... (more)

Iowa Interstate's daily Blue Island to Council Bluffs road freight busts a snow drift with both of the Interstate's special painted units, passing by the restored Wilton depot.

Canadian National 2237 leads a south bound U train on the CNs Chicago Subdivision formerly the Illinois Central mainline to New Orleans at Ludlow passing the station sign of IC heritage.

An extra Iowa Interstate job from the CRANDIC interchange in Cedar Rapids departs Fairfax with manifest and empty coal buckets bound for the BNSF in Council Bluffs.

Canadian Pacific's St Paul to Kansas City freight 474 pulls into downtown Fruitland before shoving back into the New Yard to set out some cars before continuing onto Ottumwa and then ultimately Ka... (more)

An Iowa Interstate coal extra from the Norfolk Southern in Peoria slowly approaches its final destination of the CRANDIC interchange in Cedar Rapids.

Iowa Interstate's daily Blue Island to Council Bluffs freight BICB kicks up some fresh snow while roaring through Atalissa on the Iowa City Subdivision. The sun just started to peak out as a syste... (more)

As the dense fog slowly clears out, Kansas City Southern 5000 leads CN grain train G884 into Dubuque with "Hoars Frost" lingering on the trees.

PREX 2018 in Pioneer colors lead the eastbound Keokuk Junction freight throught Burnside Illinois. A slow trip for them as track speed on the west side of the railroad is a nice and slow 10mph, it... (more)

As a storm lurks over the distance in Dubuque, L586 with Canadian cab 9402 works CN's Dubuque Yard.

TPW 3441 leads an eastbound manifest through Crescent City Illinois giving the town a bath of diesel exhaust as it rumbles through.

LTEX 3802 leads a Bloomer Line grainer into the curve at Sibley Illinois with an other LTEX leaser and a Bloomer geep.