Double header freight heading east at sunrise.

Electric Power Iowa Traction steeplecab electric No. 51 has a lot of work to do in order to get this string of loaded cars to the CP interchange track. Due to the steep grade leaving AGP, ... (more)

Bringing up the rear of a loaded DDG hopper train, BNSF warbonnet Dash 9 750 rolls past the Ottumwa Amtrak Station in Ottumwa, Iowa as the train accelerates after clearing the 10 mph crossover at ... (more)

Ethanol loads creep through the street-running in Bellevue, kissed by the setting sun on a quiet Sunday evening along the Mississippi in small-town Iowa.

A Cedar Rapids And Iowa City Railway MP15 and Slug set pull a string of empty DDG hoppers out of the west yard at the industrial complex in Eddyville, Iowa with cars bound for the massive Cargill... (more)

Inch by inch, brick by brick, enshrouded against the deep walls of the many old warehouse and factory buildings set within downtown Burlington, an old face in a familiar place cautiously inches fo... (more)

After completing work in Albia, Iowa at the BNSF interchange and Wabtec's Relco facility, the Iowa Southern's local heads south from town behind a single leased SW1500, approaching the crossing wi... (more)

With UP and BNSF power on the point, Canadian Pacific manifest freight 261 gets on the move north out of Ottumwa, IA after completing its work at the yard. With a clear signal across the diamond w... (more)

Golden evening sun casts a warm glow across Ottumwa, Iowa as a BNSF empty grain train rolls west by the Ottumwa Station platforms, following behind Amtrak's California Zephyr that made its station... (more)

A quartet of GE Genesis units lead Amtrak 6, the eastbound California Zephyr, as it cruises across BNSF's Ottumwa Sub on the east side of Albia, Iowa. The train has just passed through one of the ... (more)

CNW 5062 brings a westbound under the Hwy 30 bridge near Westside, IA in May of 1987. This train was a little underpowered as they had a hard time maintaining 40 mph for most of their trip.

The Burlington Junction Railway operates a few disjointed lines in Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri along with an eclectic roster of locomotives. On this afternoon, the Burlington, Iowa spots centerbe... (more)

CP 577 slows to a stop in Marquette for a crew change.

Amtrak's westbound California Zephyr makes its evening run across the BNSF Ottumwa Sub, cruising through Chillicothe, Iowa a few miles past its last station stop in Ottumwa. Trailing 3rd is Siemen... (more)

Early morning sun shines on BNSF's Des Moines to Galesburg Manifest as it slowly rolls around the bend coming into Albia, Iowa. The train is pulling off Des Moines Sub and on to the Ottumwa Sub fo... (more)