The city of Independence has a decent railroad display on the northside of town. The Buchanan County Tourism Visitor Center has the Chicago and Rock Island Depot and the Illinois Central Depot res... (more)

The CB&Q originally built across the Missouri Rive back in 1880. The Burlington and Missouri River Railroad had reached Plattsmouth in 1870 while working west from Creston towards Lincoln. The CB&... (more)

A short CN local returns south from Sioux City as it nears Council Bluffs.

A pair of GE's leads BNSF's Galesburg to Des Moines manifest as it begins its trip up the branch on the Des Moines Sub after diverging off the Ottumwa Sub at the junction in Albia, Iowa. Once out ... (more)

Westbound UP 7283 glides down the Boyer River valley near Woodbine, IA on an August afternoon in the Heartland.

A combo ballast empty is parked in the siding at Rutledge on the CP Ottumwa Sub. The train will park til a 14:00 crew could take it to Nahant this afternoon. The train will spin power at Fruitland... (more)

A combo ballast empty rolls north on the CP Ottumwa Sub. The train has just crossed the BNSF Ottumwa Sub and now will climb the steep 1.8% grade to Rutledge. This inbound crew is taking this train... (more)

A combo ballast empty rolls north on the CP Ottumwa Sub. The train has just crossed the BNSF Ottumwa Sub and now will climb the steep 1.8% grade to Rutledge. This inbound crew is taking this train... (more)

On September 5, 2022, a derailment, bridge collapse and subsequent liquid asphalt spill over Spring Creek near Hampton, Iowa caused several Union Pacific trains to detour across Iowa Northern trac... (more)

A CP southbound pauses briefly in the midst of the street-running through Lansing on a bustling Sunday afternoon. I hadn't expected this and it allowed me to quickly capture a couple of neat angle... (more)

CP 576 weaves their way south on a sunny afternoon along the Mississippi, skirting the undulating terrain about half way between Lansing and Harpers Ferry while doing their best to time up a meet ... (more)

Running about an hour and a half behind schedule, Amtrak's westbound California Zephyr catches the last light of the day as it speeds past farm fields in Batavia, Iowa on BNSF's Ottumwa Sub. In th... (more)

The summer MOW season is in full swing along the Ottumwa Sub as BNSF M OTMOTM6 06T rolls west through the crossovers at Beckwith, Iowa behind an ES44DC, passing a sand train holding back at the si... (more)

CP 853 is just about clear of the street running in Lansing as the sun tries hard to break through the morning fog with the small town still sleeping on a Sunday morning. The whistles at both ends... (more)

Coal loads rumble slowly through the street running in Lansing on a quiet Sunday morning with what was earlier a heavy fog on the Mississippi still hanging around the surrounding hills. This train... (more)