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.

GTW 4917 adds to the chaos of Salina Street on a gorgeous October Friday morning.

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

A classic CN EMD SD40-2W and 2 NS motors leads a G889 grain train out of the Mississippi River Valley towards Waterloo, and eventually Alden, IA.

CN 3892 (ES44AC) leads a U713 ethanol/gas train across the Mississippi River in Dubuque, IA.

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)

CN Local making its way back from Illinois after serving local industries.

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)

The afternoon local out to Manchester and back has an easy night ahead. Only 3 cars off 338 is what they have to run out. Since it is Sunday, they will not connect with any Cedar Rapids Job, so th... (more)

"Line for 2 track, kick EJE 703," the conductor on L586 commands to his engineer. A puff a smoke comes out of these 2 old girls and the tanks are off for a ride. The crew on L586 continu... (more)