CN came up with an old odd ball leader for an empty Alden, IA, bound grain empty. The CN 5317 stood proud today leading a couple NS units on a nice sunny Saturday. It is amazing how well she looks... (more)

The daily Waterloo to Kirk Yard manifest train rumbles downgrade into the Wapsipinicon River Valley at Independence. The train left Waterloo 18 mile back with a decent pair of CN units. Getting se... (more)

Work continues on the Poyner Creek bridge in Raymond. In late December the CN began work on replacing this wooden bridge. The gang now has all the cement in around the pilings. This coming week th... (more)

Work continues on the Poyner Creek bridge in Raymond. In late December the CN began work on replacing this wooden bridge. The gang now has all the cement in around the pilings. This coming week th... (more)

An empty ethanol train for the Iowa Northern train rolls thru Raymond and across Poyner Creek. In late December the CN began work on replacing this wooden bridge. The gang has all the piling in th... (more)

A late 337 train accelerates out of the Waspi River Valley west of Independence on this frosty morning. The daily Kirk Yard to Waterloo freight train normally gets into Waterloo overnight, but tod... (more)

During the Covid summer of 2020, the CN had cut service on the Omaha side between Ft. Dodge and Council Bluffs to 3 days a week. The job have usually always met and swapped cars here at Dension. ... (more)

A crew is about done with the air test on this 82 car train at the Big River Ethanol Plant on the westside of Dyersville on the CN Dubuque Sub. The crew will pull out and shove back to get the con... (more)

Hasn't been alot to shoot around the house this year for winter stuff. However today produced a nice winter scene as sleet and freezing rain coated everything. The boys had a day off from school s... (more)

G888 off the Iowa Northern at Waterloo is stopped to meet and swap crews with a U703. The crews are Dubuque and Waterloo crews, so instead of running across the Dubuque Sub and cabbing home, the c... (more)

UP trackage rights over the BNSF Transcon see this Global 4 to City of Industry, CA, Z-train hammering west on the Marceline Sub. The train is about past thru the small town of Rutledge as they ma... (more)

The Santa Fe built into Marceline around 1887. Marceline, came at the request of a director of the new railway whose wife had the Spanish name of “Marcelina.” This depot was built in 1913, and... (more)

Pretty crazy the amount of container traffic up and down the BNSF Transcon. Here San Bernardino traffic bound for Willow Springs make tracks east on the Marceline Sub. The train passes this cool o... (more)

A Galesburg to St. Louis freight passes thru the town of Louisiana along the Mississippi River. The train is working eastbound (south) on the Hannibal Sub and is about to cross the KCS Roodhouse S... (more)

An empty out of Osceola, AR, from the Plum Point Energy plant, works eastbound on the Hannibal Sub near Helton. The train is about 10 miles from the next crew change point at West Quincy. Surprisi... (more)