Around a decade ago, the CRIP station signs on this line fell and made way for these new IANR ones, but soon, they too will likely fall in the wake of CN's takeover of the Iowa Northern Railway. ... (more)

Iowa Northern's "south job" had quite the power lash-up on this snowy December day. Pictured here are IANR 3810 (GP38-2), 4003 (GP40-2LW), 3955 (slug), 3956 (slug), 461 (F40PHR), 3806 (GP38-2), 38... (more)

The Palo Express is on the 3rd trip of the day out of Palo as they past thru the small town of Shellsburg. Around 900 tickets were sold for each train and the 1st 2 trains I heard were sold out, t... (more)

Palo flood relief train, All runs sold out at $12.00 a ride. Not bad for a 30 Minute ride. A lot of kid's had fun.