As a slight snow falls, IANR 4002 switches out a industry near the town of Fairbank. Within a few days, this former CN unit will once again be property of CN.

IANR 4002, IANR 3953 (slug), and GMTX 2276 pull the south job back north across the Cedar River. The interesting curved bridge is the new stretch of hwy 100 from hwy 30 to Cedar Rapids, IA. Just t... (more)

The Iowa Northern's North Crew makes its way north towards Manly. The crew left Bryant Yard about 3 hours ago and hasn't done well to get across the CN trackage between Linden Ave and Cedar Falls ... (more)

The Iowa Northern's Oelwein Job pokes along northbound toward Fairbank. The job has a small 4 car train as they cross the Wapsipinicon River in Bruggeman Park between Dunkerton and Fairbank. The j... (more)

The Iowa Northern's South Crew has cars to setout for the north track here at La Porte. Here the crew pulls up to setoff their cars and is passing the classic Rock Island Depot. Due to Winter Stor... (more)

The Oelwein Crew heads back to Waterloo with 25 car of grain. This job operates daily out of Waterloo and makes either a Fairbank or Oelwein turn normally in the afternoon. The main customer on th... (more)

Trackage rights from Nora Springs to Garner to there ex CNW UP line.

The south end of the Iowa Northern between Waterloo and Cedar Rapids is a mainly night time operation. There is a few times when things get behind schedule and the train is coming back to Waterloo... (more)

Iowa Northern's South Crew is heading back to Waterloo with cars out of Cedar Rapids. Here the crew is about 6 miles from the Bryant Yard in south Waterloo. This job works 7 days a week and works... (more)

A bit late the North bound South Job is less then a 1/2 hour out of the yard.

The Iowa Northern's South Crew is enroute back to Waterloo as they leave La Porte. Today is the 1st snow storm of the winter in Iowa for 2012-13, and snow is stuck to everything as the beginning o... (more)

Iowa Northern Palo Express is in deadhead mode as they past thru La Porte on their way to Palo to park for the night for tomorrow's event. This train set normally is used for Iowa Hawkeye's Footba... (more)

Iowa Northern's Palo Holiday Express roll south back to Palo with the 1st southbound trip of 4 for the day. For $12 riders could enjoy a 28 mile roundtrip ride From Palo to Vinton or vice versa to... (more)

The North Crew slowly makes their way south towards Waterloo. This job had almost 100 cars today out of Nora Springs. This end is seeing all the traffic due to bridge still out in Waterloo due to ... (more)

It is getting to be that time of the year when farmers begin to get crops out of the fields. The beans are out in this field south of Marble Rock. The North Crew heads south with around 90 cars wi... (more)