The path along the Mississippi River south of downtown Dubuque, IA is a nice place for a morning walk, especially when the CN has a pair of older GP38-2's working in their yard.
in 2022, the CP ran their tech train across the old GWWR on the KCS on 1/27 and 28. The train left St. Louis late on 1/27 and ran to KC on the 28th. Last night the train made its way out of KC on ... (more)
IC 3115 & IC 9622 lead the charge of CN L56591-11 as they work their way westbound up and out of the Mississippi River Valley, darting under the old Highway 20 overpass in the Julien neighborhood ... (more)
With a IC GP40R in it’s orignal “Deathstar” scheme followed by a GTW repaint, L565 can be seen beginning their evening as they depart Dubuque to head to Manchester.
NOT TYPICAL: Not your typical trucking company meets not your typical railroading. CN's Dubuque based local has just made the shove down the middle of Salina Street. They're in th... (more)
FXE 2046 (EMD GP38-2) leads CP 2WCM-09 northbound over CN trackage past CN's Dubuque Yard. This is by far one of the most unprecedented movements I've seen in my entire life. If you'd told me a mo... (more)
IMRL SD40's 218 ex-BN 6306 and 202 ex-C&S 885 has train 233 heading southbound along the Mississippi River at Dubuque, Iowa December 8, 1998. Jack Kuiphoff ? photo
The westbound Dubuque to Manchester and back local is out of Dubuque in good shape with their 16:00 on duty time. L565's 2 GP38's are just a barking lifting tonnage out of the Mississippi River Va... (more)
CN came up with an old odd ball leader for an empty Alden, IA, bound grain empty. The CN 5317 stood proud today leading a couple NS units on a nice sunny Saturday. Here the train pulls into #1 tra... (more)
It's a late fall afternoon along the Mississippi as a quartet of CN locomotives east into the yard in Dubuque, Iowa with manifest freight M338 in tow after a run across Iowa from Waterloo. The tra... (more)
There was quite a buzz in Iowa the mid of March 2022. This old veteran SD40 lead 2 mainline trains in and out of Iowa. The 1st train was this an empty grain to Alden, IA. The next day M338 would b... (more)