Vestiges of the Chicago Great Western Mainline to Kansas City. The superelevation in this curve is no longer needed for the 10mph running on what is now a short spur.

The Iowa Northern's North Crew has just lined the electric lock switches on the Albert Lea Sub to get across the UP into the yard at Manly. The UP north dispatcher gives the IANR permission to mak... (more)

Ethanol has brought this section of the CGW back to life. Here, the westbound Iowa Northern Oelwein Job passes ethanol & dried distillers grain hoppers on it's way out of town. With most of the ... (more)

Iowa Northern 3811 leans to the left as it hits a low spot in the track north of Nora Springs. Traffic on the Iowa Northern has grown significantly with the boom in ethanol production.

The North Crew is tied down for the holiday at the north end Clarksville. This job normally would be moving with 1 crew ever 8 hours, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week between Waterloo and Manly, but ... (more)

A late South Crew is making a rare daylight trip to Cedar Rapids today. The line south of Waterloo is still a hard line to shoot daylight trains on. The IANR had 5 of these GP20's rebuilt by NRE a... (more)

The Iowa Northern ran a couple tractor trains from Waterloo, IA to Cedar Rapids, IA in 2004. The IANR received the trains from the UP at Waterloo and delivered the trains back to UP at Cedar Rapid... (more)

The South Crew rolls pass the old Rock Island depot at La Porte. With the Cedar River Bridge still out in Waterloo, this end of the railroad isn't seeing alot of traffic. When this job does run it... (more)

Work is done for the day for the Oelwein Job. They brought cars out of Oelwein, Fairbank, and Dunkerton today for the CN and UP. Now the power will layover here at the new siding named Bulter. The... (more)

Oelwein job making a run to ShellRock with the UP overhead.

The Oelwein Job heads back south to Waterloo with a good size train. Today's train is made up of 28 cars for the CN out of Fairbank and Dunkerton and 41 cars for the UP at Manly out of Oelwein and... (more)

With a train that looks like a UP train instead of an IANR train, the Oelwein Job heads across the CN towards Cedar Falls Jct. This crew is heading up to Butler siding to put all the Transco cars ... (more)

Having no way to get to there yard, The north job is setting out its cars for the Oelwein Job and UP cars.