IAIS 6988 flys through West Liberty at every bit of track-speed with 2100 tons of freight in tow as the train heads around the curve past the historic depot.

IAIS 6988 throttles up as they depart a crew changing point at Brooklyn with 2100 tons of freight as they head towards Silvis.

IAIS 6988 crawls past the historic Grinnell depot before a crew change point east of the Union Pacific Oskaloosa Subdivision diamonds with 2100 tons of freight.

IAIS 6988 sprints over Big Bear Creek with 2100 tons of freight in tow, before a crew change point at South Amana.

CNW 6888 leads a Falcon across the swollen Cedar River in Cedar Rapids, IA in August of 1993. Once a gauntlet bridge, it is single track in this photo. A bottleneck for traffic for many years, the... (more)

Built in 1949 for the Peoria & Pekin Union, #405 has found a new home.

Built in 1941 for the Manufactures Railway in St. Louis, #205 has found a new home.

Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway Alco RS-1 #222 between switching assignments at Ft. Dodge, Iowa in June 1956. Photo by Fred Ziebe, part of my slide collection.

On loan from the Mid Continent Railway Museum, Ten Wheeler #1385 leads a special west across the CNW mainline in Iowa.

As the sun rises on a spring morning in Ottumwa, Iowa, BNSF's Des Moines to Galesburg manifest freight H DMOGAL heads east past the industrial east side of town behind a trio of GE's. In the backg... (more)

Highest numbered SD70MAC on the BNSF roster, 9999 working as a remote DPU unit on a westbound empty hopper train shoving through the S-curve at Balfour Iowa.

With a trio of EMD's up front, including a triclops SD60M leader, the BNSF H GALDMO manifest makes its way out of Albia, Iowa after getting off the Ottumwa Sub and on the Des Moines Sub for a run ... (more)

The Union Pacific Des Moines local job has arrived at the Shortline Yard on the east side of Des Moines, Iowa and is shoving around the connector track off of the Trenton Sub. The crew will break ... (more)

The westbound Blue Island - Council Bluffs road freight arrives South Amana as is passes the wye connection for the Cedar Rapids Sub.