While it comes and goes, trios of SD70Ms in Iowa are kind of common. M338 has a trio of them today as they pass the 1st siding out of Waterloo, near Jesup. As one can see, the tie gang has just fi... (more)

Work started last week on prepping this old bridge over Prairie Creek for replacement. The bridge gang has been working on the fills and culverts around the bridge to make it more accessible. With... (more)

The Waterloo to Kirk Yard manifest train climbs over the 1st hill in the Winthrop Curves. The train is sporting a trio of SD70's today as they drag 9400 tons of Iowa freight east. Non-AC power is ... (more)

Iowa has seen a few solid IC SD70's consists come and go. Today the weather was not ideal, I will take the sun. The past few consists have had bad weather or I have been on them. Today a 2x1 DP-d... (more)

Iowa has seen a few solid IC SD70's consists come and go. Today the weather was not ideal, I will take the sun. The past few consists have had bad weather or I have been on them. Today a 2x1 DP-d... (more)

I had my drone on my 338 trip for hopes of shooting the CP business train, but a 21:30 arrival in Dubuque ended up not working for my work schedule. Instead I went after the train I just handed of... (more)

338 is in their normal morning routine of doubling up on the east end of the yard at Waterloo. While they double up the Iowa Northern's North Crew slips by on top heading for the industrial lead a... (more)

This wasn't the main prize of the day, but L569 departed Waterloo ahead of the Iowa Northern Job we were after, so I did alittle drone work around Cedar Falls Junction. CN has been good lately of ... (more)

The daily Waterloo to Kirk yard manifest train rolls along the Dubuque Sub between Winthrop and Masonville. The train is about 35 miles east of Waterloo and enroute to Dubuque for the next work an... (more)

The daily Waterloo to Kirk Yard manifest train rumbles across Buffalo Creek on one of the few cool larger wood bridges left on the CN in Iowa. The train left Waterloo less than an hour ago and is... (more)

Man the foreign power has been thru the roof this year on the CN in Iowa. It is hard to go out and work on CN power or get shots of it. Everything, and I mean everything, has run thru to Iowa. The... (more)

Regular Merchandise Train from Waterloo, IA - Chicago, IL heading east towards Dubuque, IA.

A BLE tunnel motor leads a very nice lashup across the Fox River on the ex-IC Iowa line.