I&M Rail Link SD9 #610 local grain mill power in Creston, IA.

Freshly painted SW1500 #1501 at Burlington, IA.

Not everyday a palindrome shows up on the Iowa Interstate, but the 707 has been on the Grimes branch for the last couple of weeks. This morning it's headed east thru Windsor Heights with a LRS em... (more)

A pair of SD40Ns lead YCR53 11 timetable westbound (southbound) toward Beverly Yard with their train of interchange traffic from North Yard. The cut of Deeres being up front really made my day. Ta... (more)

Recently repainted CSXT 5262, a former BNSF, now KCS-owned Dash 9, and a pair of BNSF GEVOs lead 261-15 northbound past the neatly kept memorial to the various branches of the military. This train... (more)

IAIS Freight Train BICB heads westbound into Victor, IA.

IAIS Freight Train BICB heads westbound through Marengo, IA.

Iowa Interstate Railroad's Iowa City Switcher heads eastbound through the small community of Oxford, IA.

"Sky Big Boy" Sometimes a locomotive comes along that is so great and so massive that you have to take to the sky to see it in its full glory. Taken at around 200ft from my drone, we se... (more)

CP 8121 leads train 261 through the small town of New Albin, MN

UP 7234 leads a Global 2 to Los Angeles intermodal train just east of Mechanicsville, IA. This was taken one day after UP had axed ATC cab signals on the former C&NW mainline across Iowa and Illin... (more)

Big Boy 4014 Rolls in to downtown Bell Plaine Iowa for a stop on the 2024 Midwest Tour

Big Boy 4014 Rolls Eastbound through farm country, just West of Carroll Iowa on the 2024 Midwest tour

CN 5693 pulls up to Osage Ave in Waterloo, Iowa with M33891 29 in tow, almost ready to depart from Hilltop, bound straight for Dubuque. It was nice to see a train with an (almost) solid SD75I cons... (more)

IANR 451 sits waiting, tied down at the boat ramp just north of UP's North Yard. Taken on the IANR Cedar Rapids Subdivision on 8/11/23.