Weighed down with a unit ethanol train and extra DDG cars, this Council Bluffs freight lumbers into Newton. The job passed the beautiful ex-Rock Island Depot. The train has 2 GEs in a 1x1 DP setup... (more)
Led by an ES44AC and two GP38-2's, the Iowa Interstate's CBBI approaches Marengo, Iowa as they head east over the Newton Subdivision. The train is crossing over Big Bear Creek on an 1901 built tru... (more)
Iowa Interstate's popular Rock Island heritage unit, ES44AC #513, hustles past the restored former Rock Island depot in Marseilles, IL while leading CBBI for Blue Island, IL. I feel that the color... (more)
After stopping to drop the conductor in town, the pair of ES44AC's in charge of Iowa Interstates CBBI pull the train east to take headroom to work the Heartland Coop grain elevators in Kellogg, Io... (more)
With a GEVO and two GP's on the head end and another GEVO bringing up the rear, the Iowa Interstate's CBBI makes its way east over the Newton Subdivision and is about to pound the diamond with the... (more)
With a GEVO and two GP's on the head end and another GEVO bringing up the rear, the Iowa Interstate's CBBI has slowed to pass through a work zone along Route 6 outside of Ladora, Iowa. Crews are m... (more)
With a GEVO and two GP's on the head end and another GEVO bringing up the rear, the Iowa Interstate's CBBI is climbing through Altoona, Iowa and passing by the Landus Cooperative's grain elevator.... (more)
Iowa Interstate's 30th Anniversary ES44AC #516, lettered for IAIS in a Rock Island inspired scheme, leads train CBBI past the former Rock Island depot in Marseilles, IL.
Iowa Interstate ES44AC 503 brings up the rear DPU of a late running CBBI as it rolls across US Route 6 and heads into Newton, Iowa, which is typically where this train would get its crew. A hotbox... (more)
With their work completed, a pair of ES44AC's lead the Iowa Interstate's CBBI as it rolls east out of Kellogg, Iowa and approaches the Route 6 overpass. The Heartland Coop grain elevators back in ... (more)
A pair of Iowa Interstate GEVO's lead the eastbound CBBI as it cruises through Brooklyn, Iowa and passes by the Brooklyn Elevator complex along the south side of the small town.
After dropping the conductor off, the Iowa Interstate's CBBI rolls past the Heartland Coop elevators in Kellogg, Iowa and prepares to make a large block swap of hoppers, pulling and dropping cars ... (more)