Some might think getting trains on the UP East-West main at sunset might be easy, well most days it isn't, but today I lucked out to have this eastbound Council Bluffs to Proviso freight train rol... (more)

Some might think getting trains on the UP East-West main at sunset might be easy, well most days it isn't, but today I lucked out to have this eastbound Council Bluffs to Proviso freight train rol... (more)

The sun is about done for the the day as the NS begins moving trains again after D1G picking up grain at Sadorus, and D91 doing local work at Tolono, had the NS at a stop for about a hour. There i... (more)

An eastbound autorack train rolls east towards Clinton at sunset.

The local grain sweeper has just left Sandorus heading back to Decatur with a small grain train. Sandorus is located about 10 miles West of Tolono.

M338 and M337 is meeting at Beth siding tonight and swapping crews. When M337 is late enough then usually these 2 trains will meet and swaps crews so the Waterloo and Dubuque crews end up back at ... (more)

The Waterloo, IA, to Kirk Yard, IL, manifest train is pulling in the siding at Beth to meet its counterpart M337. Beth siding is located 35 miles east of Waterloo. The track they are on once was o... (more)

M338 is scheduled out of Waterloo at 20:00, 7 days a week, tonight's train is running on time as they climb out of Independence en route east to Kirk Yard in Chicago, IL. 2 ex-ATSF dash 8's and a ... (more)

The clouds drift by as red glow from the sunset shows under the cloud line on these ex-Santa Fe cantilever signals at Lomax. Lomax is located 15 miles east of Ft. Madison, IA.

The uniformity of an empty grain train gleams in the morning sunlight. This empty is east of Wyaconda rolling east towards Galesburg and points north.

A Union Pacific trackage rights train rolls west at sunrise west of West Medill. UP has few pairs of trains that run over the BNSF east of Kansas City to Chicago or Edelstein.

An eastbound coal train makes their way east at sunset. The train is passing thru Blairstown, which is located 20 miles west of Cedar Rapids in central Iowa.

As the sunsets on the evening, a conventional coal train rolls east thru southern Iowa. This coal load is 10 miles east of Fairfield en route to Burlington, IA, for next crew train. This train wil... (more)

As the sunsets on the evening, a 2x1 Dp-ed coal train rolls east thru southern Iowa near the detector at MP 251. This coal load is 5 miles east of Fairfield en route to Burlington, IA, for next cr... (more)

The sunset glints off the headend of this westbound Nahant, IA, to Mason City, IA, manifest train as it makes its way the last 10 miles to Mason City. The train has just left Nora Springs behind a... (more)