A collection of jeeps handles this coal train out of Council Bluffs to Chicago. The train is about to arrive at Waterloo as they pass through the west end of the double track at Waterloo named Sus... (more)

A meet today that still happens quite often nowadays. Back in 1992, the Iowa Northern's North Job was waiting for an empty CCP IEI coal train to depart Waterloo. The Iowa Northern started using th... (more)

Amtrak and the Santa Fe made a deal on 18 SDP40Fs in 1984. Amtrak had a lot of derailment problems with these units. Some thought it might have been the hollow bolster version of the HT/C in the t... (more)

I don't remember a lot of Chicago to KC Q-trains running, so I think this was a little odd for 1995. Also odd was how the Santa Fe found the CNW 6564 unit. The 6564 was the one-off that was rebuil... (more)

The notes I found said this is the 1st time we seen these Dash 8s on Amtrak. Amtrak received 20 of these Dash 8s in 1991. . The Southwest Chief ran via the Santa Fe until 1998, when it was moved t... (more)

The Southwest Chief discontinued service east of Cameron Connection in 1998. Once the BNSF merger got going and the connection was built, the Chief stopped taking the Chillicothe Sub into Chicago.... (more)

The hoarfrost is burning off around Galesburg on this crisp December morning in 1992. The Illinois Zephyr makes good time on its morning trek from Quincy to Chicago. The train is on the BN 4th Sub... (more)

In the late 1990s, the Iowa Northern Railway (IANR) was going through a difficult time and had leased a variety of locomotives to augment its fleet of GP20s and GP38s. A couple of Amtrak units wer... (more)

The Butler to Manly job creeps through Greene as they make their way north on the Manly Sub. The hefty train has cars for the CPKC at Nora Springs and a lot of cars for Manly. Guess the Manly elev... (more)

A westbound Santa Fe intermodal comes over Main Street in Galesburg. 4 blue and yellows have this intermodal bound for the west coast 173 miles west of Chicago on the Chillicothe Sub. This sure do... (more)

How would you like to come to work and grab 3 B23s/GP 50 and go run 70 mph with them and not have any worries about fuel conservation! Back 30 years ago, the railroads wanted to move traffic and g... (more)

A pair of jeeps get this hot traffic moving again at East Burke on the BN 2nd Sub. Burke is the 1st siding east of Savanna. The train just met a westbound stacker and will now continue on the roug... (more)

An empty ethanol train bound for the Iowa Northern rolls through the former location known as Beth. The train is near MP 241 on the CN Dubuque Sub. The train and crew will be done in 24 more miles... (more)

An empty grain train for the Iowa Northern races along the Dubuque Sub just west of Independence. The train is 22 miles from the interchange point with the IANR at Waterloo. New soybean plants at ... (more)

An eastbound has all the geeps barking as they climb the grade into Beth. These tired girls have been working their tails off since they left Waterloo 35 miles ago. There will be no break all the ... (more)