IANR 3802 swings off of home rails and onto the CPKC to pick up five cars at Nora Springs as the day comes to an end. To the left is a remnant of the past, a Milwaukee Road searchlight still guard... (more)
The Iowa Northern's Cedar Rapids to Waterloo job makes a later appearance in Vinton as they work back to Bryant Yard in Waterloo. The crew would have to go out on the Dysart Branch to spot and pul... (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)
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)
Iowa Northern's North Crew is coming thru downtown Waterloo and is crosiing the Cedar River as Mother Nature dumps 10-12 inches of snow across Iowa in the 1st storm of winter. This crew will flip ... (more)
The Iowa Northern's North Crew is on the south end of the yard at Bryant trying to get switches cleaned out so they can yard their inbound train. Heavy wind and snow is slowing railroading down to... (more)
Basically the only customer at the end of the line at Oelwein is Transco Repair Facility. Here the Oelwein crew comes around the wye to put their inbound cars away and pickup their outbound cars f... (more)
As Iowa prepares for the 1st major winter storm of the season, the IANR's South Crew is about done for the day at Bryant Yard. Conductor Shane Dolan works thru the heavy snow as he is about to jum... (more)
Work is done for the day for the Oelwein Job. They brought cars out of Oelwein, Fairbank, and Dunkerton today for the CN and UP. Now the power will layover here at the new siding named Bulter. The... (more)
The Oelwein Job heads back south to Waterloo with a good size train. Today's train is made up of 28 cars for the CN out of Fairbank and Dunkerton and 41 cars for the UP at Manly out of Oelwein and... (more)