Still wearing its Burlington Northern Cascade Green, BNSF SD40-2 1706 sits on the point of the M GALEDY power set at the south end of the yard outside of Eddyville, Iowa. After a night run from Ga... (more)

A pair of GP's working on the Union Pacific yard job out of Shortline Yard in Des Moines, Iowa has taken a long cut out of the yard, pulling east for headroom on to Iowa Interstate's Newton Sub. T... (more)

A westbound manifest behind Union Pacific and Kansas City Southern power kicks up a little snow as it hustles downgrade toward Denison, IA, seen at the US Highway 30 overpass east of Vail.

An eastbound stack train enters the Boone Subdivision off of the Omaha Subdivision at Missouri Valley. The 7026 is one of the locomotives Union Pacific ordered in the late 90's from GE with the in... (more)

A rebuilt AC4400CW sits with a westbound stack train on the Boyer River bridge as it waits for a couple of eastbounds out of Council Bluffs to clear the single track south of Missouri Valley, IA.

Operating on a section of track far removed from the Norfolk Southern system, a pair of NS GP38-2's on DU90 take four tank cars west after picking them up from Helena Industries in Des Moines, Iow... (more)

The Iowa Southern Railway's local crew pulls cars from the BNSF interchange, crossing Benton Ave and pass the school bus garage in Albia, Iowa behind an ISRY EMD GP7 and a CBFX SW1500. Albia is th... (more)

I was attending a summer school workshop at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, IA back in June of 1994. As with many of my pre-internet trip, I arrived with zero knowledge of what the local rail... (more)

Iowa Interstate EMD GP38-2 No. 708 and EMD SD38-2 No. 153 momentarily sit idle at Atlantic, Iowa, on April 6, 2016.

A Railserve crew at the operation in Eddyville, Iowa switches out the yard on the south side of the industrial complex with a pair of LTEX GP's on a dreary December morning. Now a stub end yard, t... (more)

CNW 6905 rolls thru Watkins, IA in May of 1987. Watkins still has a Post Office, but it has moved to a more modern building not visible trackside.

A pair of SD70ACe's lead a loaded coal train east outside of Avery, Iowa in the first minutes of morning sun, meeting a westbound empty coal train here at the Eddyville Spur connection.

2 repaint EMDs hide out the small snow storm on the North end of Nahant. 6043 and 4420 would be used for RCL job after the snow passed.

The "UP Donation Special" crosses the Cedar River at Moscow, IA. Seen here are engines UP 3985, UP 5511, UP 6936. The entire consist is headed for RRHMA's shops in Silvis, IL.

Iowa Interstate train CBBI passing the Grinnell Station on the former Rock Island crossing over the UP Oskaloosa Sub (former Minneapolis & St Louis line)