On Mondays there are 2 switch crews based int he yard at Waterloo. Both jobs normally leave after 5pm to go out and do industry work around Waterloo. Even the yard is fairly empty 3 jobs are int h... (more)

On Monday's the 17:00-L568 Job goes over and does work on the John Deere Industrial lead in west-central Waterloo. The lead is about 2-3 miles long and serves 4 customers. Nicknamed "The Deer... (more)

The Cedar River now has 2 full crews to work the Osage Sub Monday-Friday. Normal an early morning and mid afternoon start times for the crews. Here the afternoon crew makes a Waterloo turn and is ... (more)

On Monday's the 17:00-L568 Job goes over and does work on the John Deere Industrial lead in west-central Waterloo. The lead is about 2-3 miles long and serves 4 customers. The job goes to couple e... (more)

On Monday's the 17:00-L568 Job normal goes over and does work on the John Deere Industrial lead in west-central Waterloo. The lead is about 2-3 miles long and serves 4 customers. The job goes to c... (more)

Most times, winter railroading isn't much fun from the railroader side. The weather conditions can make life 10 times harder than it has to be. Here the North Crew heads out to clean the dusting o... (more)

Nice match set of 7 GP38's bring the North Crew into Waterloo on a snowy Saturday morning. The train is about to Bryant Yard where they will setout heir train and built a train to head north towar... (more)

This NS heritage unit made its 2nd trips to Iowa the past week. I brought this unit out of Fort Dodge on 570 along with the NS 8039. After work I swung by the roundhouse for a couple shots. The pa... (more)

The Waterloo to Sioux City local begins their trip west out of Waterloo. This job normally goes to work around the lunchtime for the Waterloo to Fort Dodge segment. The crew is dragging extra powe... (more)

The Waterloo Switcher is on the way back from the Union Pacific's Yard at Linden with a big pull. The Iowa Northern calls the cars to and from the UP the "overhead". UP has a landlocked ... (more)

The Iowa Northern has a roster with alittle bit of everything on it. Lots of times seeing large consists of the same power isn't too common. It has been a long time since I seen a large set of pur... (more)

The CN Executive Train rolls down the runaround track at Waterloo Yard as L571 begins to double up their outbound train for Fort Dodge. One of the switch engines is also parked on #9 track for the... (more)

Getting sun on the Executive Train today was a tough challenge. About only sun I seen was here at Waterloo where only meat and potato shots could be had. Even though its boring shot, it was cool t... (more)

When the CN Executive Train ran in Iowa in October the CN also had their Geometry Train in the state touring the railroading. I kind of thought it would be cool to get the trains passing since Iow... (more)

An overhead view of Iowa Northern's Bryant Yard with a variety of equipment scattered about. In the upper right are a pair of ex-Rock Island E's bought by the IANR and painted by MAC in KC. Curren... (more)