As the last interurban, Iowa Traction's operations are completely unique. Here, #51 crosses 19th Street to take four cars up to the CP interchange. On the back of the engine, the conductor is pull... (more)

Iowa Traction #51 sits under a starry Iowa sky, illuminated by the lights of the AGP Mason City plant. The steam and exhaust from the plant is streaking in the background in this eight second expo... (more)

an Eastbound coal load snakes through Burlington Iowa approaching the Mississippi River bridge on a wet rainy June day

The 2022 CP Holiday Train rides the shore of the Mississippi River during last light arriving into the Quad Cities.

Canadian Pacific's Holiday Train rolls across the swing bridge spanning the Mississippi River at Sabula, IA, having just completed its stop in Savanna and now on its way to the next show in Davenp... (more)

Running a half hour late, the 2022 CP Holiday train heads through the small community of Buffalo, IA along the Mississippi River.

The 2022 CP Holiday Train crosses the narrow ridge splitting Lake Sabula, heading out of the small community, or nicknamed “Island town” of Sabula, Iowa. In the background is the Mississippi R... (more)

7695 leads CP 261 on its way into Nahant at West Davenport yard.

Former Burlington Northern, now CNW 6567, idles with Conrail and old Penn Central engines, and CNW 4540 in the Council Bluffs yard.

CP SD30 ECOs lead a manifest south out of Nahant towards Muscatine

The yard dog.

A pair of Iowa Interstate ES44AC's lead a unit ethanol train running as BICB as it takes the siding in Brooklyn, Iowa and heads west, meeting the eastbound CBBI freight that's holding on the main.... (more)

after a another storm rolls through IAIS 703 and 152 comes onto the connector track building its train in CPs West Davenport Yard.

A quartet of SD60MACs were built by EMD to test Siemens alternating current traction equipment and the builder’s HTCR-II radial (steerable) truck. Constructed on a 74-foot frame, the 3,800 hp SD... (more)

The royal Canadian Pacific business train heads south into Davenport, closing in on Nahant Yard.