With cold weather and snow, railroading is starting to slow down in the Midwest. That means trains are becoming later too. As is the case today with a late South Crew heading back to Waterloo. The... (more)

The South Crew is running back north with traffic from Cedar Rapids to Waterloo with an A-B-B-A of F40's and a GP38. The job is running alittle later today due to work they had at Vinton on the wa... (more)

The South Crew is running back north to Waterloo with an A-B-B-A of F40's and a GP38. Here the train passes this ex-Rock Island Depot at La Porte City in a small snow storm. This job normally make... (more)

The South Crew is running alittle late today on their northbound trip from Cedar Rapids to Waterloo. Once at Waterloo the crew switched out their train and then made a delivery to the UP yard at L... (more)

Iowa Northern's South Crew is just finishing up their day by yarding interchange traffic off the UP at Waterloo. This job made a Cedar Rapids turn overnight, and when they got back to Waterloo, ma... (more)

It was a busy afternoon at the Iowa Northern's Bryant Yard in Waterloo. The train on the left is the Waterloo Switcher who just got back from the CN with interchange. Job in the middle is the Sout... (more)

One thing about Midwest winter's is things get screwed up and late. As is the case today as Caleb and I braved the cold weather to chase the South Crew back towards Waterloo. This is normally an o... (more)

The IANR South Crew was alittle late a couple days when the weather got cold back in January. Here the job works back north towards Waterloo. The train is between La Porte City and Mt Auburn. Seei... (more)

The south end of the Iowa Northern the past 30 years has been somewhat a night time operation. You will find odd ball stuff running or late trains year in and year out. As was the case in January ... (more)

The Iowa Northern original roster was madeup of 12 GP38's. Since then they have added GP40's, F40's, Cats, and slug sets to their collectic roster. Here the South Crew is alittle old school as the... (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 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)

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)

The Iowa Northern's South Crew is running late today making the trip back to Waterloo easier to photograph. Still at La Porte an old Rock Island depot that the MofW people still use. The South Cre... (more)