Westbound for Council Bluffs waits to be sorted at South Amana before being advanced to Newton.

SASI awaits departure from South Amana.

An aerial view of the Iowa Interstate South Amana Yard.

Tractor pull!
Three covered hoppers dropped off at the grain elevator at Dexter, Iowa, on the Iowa Interstate Railroad are spotted by a reliable John Deere tractor. No need for a locomo... (more)

517, the first of three new GEVO's, gets prepped in the engine facility.

Iowa Interstate SD38-2 151 and a pair of Norfolk Southern GE's take control of the IAIS transfer to IHB's Blue Island Yard as they shove south through the bridges of Blue Island Junction. The old ... (more)

SIBI heads east out of Joliet with a GP38-2 in charge. The classic EMD was making quite the racket as it made its climb out of the Joliet River Valley.

A SIPE awaits departure from Silvis Yard.

Iowa 152 and 504 thunder east out of the Joliet River Valley as they make way over Hickory Creek on the east side of town.

On Groundhog Day, BICSX rolls through Blue Island Junction with an SD38-2 in charge.

IAIS CBBI works its way east through downtown Moline, Illinois as the snow comes down. On point is IAIS 515, one of the newer gevos on the IAIS roster.

IAIS BICB works through the Quad Cities as it gets through the "street running" portion of Davenport. Here the old Rock used to run in between two streets. IAIS 508 passes by the old hou... (more)

One of four remaining SD38’s on the IAIS roster lead train SIBI into the city of New Lenox on the former Rock Island. You could hear this train plenty before he rounded the bend!

My first train of the year and the new decade was the IAIS SIBI with an awesome winter morning scene! Here is IAIS 516 bringing SIBI up the hill out of Joliet, IL on the former Rock Island. Welcom... (more)

IAIS 516 leading SIBI into Blue Island under the soon to fall Rock Island signals.