The Iowa Traction is running around Mason City on a very cold day. The crew has just grabbed 20 empties from the CP and is now heading for the AGP plant to get them switched. The crew just got don... (more)

Isn't too hard to find the Iowa Traction lines, just follow the pole line! This Monday morning finds 2 jobs out at Emery doing a push-pull operation to get cars spotted at the local gas customer. ... (more)

One thing that is kind of cool about the Iowa Traction is how the operator must change the trolley pole for the direction of travel. So the operator does alot of moving around from end to end as h... (more)

Sometimes the shadow can be your friend. I like how the ground guy's shadow it prefect in on the ground and how the motorman is working on flipping the trolley pole for direction change in this sh... (more)

Emery is where the Iowa Traction is based with a yard and a few customers. Alot of operations happen more in Mason City around the AGP plant, so I was happy to get some rare mileage for me. The IA... (more)

After the days work, the Iowa Traction 50 rests outside the AGP Plant in Mason City, Iowa.

IATR steeplecab # 51 will celebrate its 100th anniversary in five short years in 2021. Quite an amazing feat for this small locomotive.

Iowa Traction 51 is down on its knees pulling a long cut of loaded hoppers upgrade. When the rear end clears the switch, IATR 60 will tie onto the rear car, pull the drag back down the hill, then... (more)

Iowa Traction 54 crosses South Eisenhower Ave heading for Clear Lake Junction.

Iowa Traction 60 pulls a cut of three tank cars out of the REG spur while sister 54 sits nearby. IATR 54 is a 50-ton steeplecab that was built by Baldwin-Westinghouse in May 1923 as Southern Iowa ... (more)

This Bud's for You! IATR 54 rolls past the Budweiser distributor in Mason City as it heads for the shop at Emery. Anheuser-Busch introduced its signature Bohemian lager in 1876, just twenty years... (more)

Iowa Traction 50 shoves four hoppers back to the CP interchange track near Clear Lake Junction. The railroad dates back to 1896, when it was founded as the Mason City & Clear Lake Railway.

Iowa Traction 50 pulls a cut of cars across 15th Street in Mason City on America's last all-electric interurban freight railroad. How rare is it? No. 50 is nearing its 100th birthday; it was bu... (more)

The Iowa Traction in cooperation with Steve Glischinski put on a photo trip in Mason City for a few fellow railfans. Here the #50 is ready to head to the UP with one car from Behr Scrap near Emery... (more)

Although acquired and restored to it's Washington state appearance from it's days in Yakima, 297 is actually a veteran of Southern California; having served the long forgotten Glendale and Montros... (more)