An oddball set of power trundles through the Iowa Countryside. Locals have no idea how much this railroad provided a competitive advantage to agricultural shippers... and by proxy, their own crop... (more)

A sign of the times has a CP Dash 2 leading a northbound manifest on the former DM&E Owatonna Sub.

A sign of change has a CP 40 type leading a short manifest north on the former DME/ICE Owatonna Sub in Northern Iowa.

IC&E 6415 leads a mixed freight through the stereotype Iowa small town of Plymouth on the Owatonna Sub.

When you got to either be dug out or dig yourself out of the front door, you know that you've been hitting some good drifts. The wind was blowing quite hard today filling in drifts between Austin,... (more)

The Iowa Northern's 14:00 North Crew makes a stop for the DM&E Owatonna Sub at Plymouth Jct., before continuing north towards Manly. As soon as they clear DM&E train 616 will head south towards No... (more)

After waiting around 3 hours for the Iowa Northern's North Crew, 616 is on the move south towards Nora Springs. This train is about to go thru the connection at Plymouth Jct onto the IANR's Manly ... (more)

It doesn't look like it, but this is CP's Holiday train. It was towed backwards from a wye at Mona, near Lyle, Minn., to Mason City since there is not a wye there and the train had to head east ou... (more)

Having added 2 more SD40-2 to the front and having only 20 cars they pull free of the snow.

Having just cut off there train, slowly approaching the train that is stuck in a long drift.

Mason City local has everything set to get stop on this very cold day for the stop sign at the diamond with the Iowa Nothern's Manly Sub. This crew went to work at 6 am at Mason City and cab to Au... (more)

Need a lift? A crew van waits to take ICE 6441's crew back to Mason City, about 10 miles to the south. The crew locked up the engine, loaded their grips into the van and took off, leaving t... (more)

The Wells, MN local crew brings 75 cars of grain on a Feeder train through Plymouth, MN.

Surrounded by snow & ice early in the morning

The HUCC is pulling into Plymouth after a short wait. A 3 way meet just went on at the Plymouth Jct. as the IC&E had a MHUCC and a MNAWA waiting for the IANR's Manly Switcher to head back north to... (more)