With the official takeover date of March 1, 2025, I have been out trying to shoot the Iowa Northern as the CN makes changes to the railroad. Job changes came first in March, and now power changes ... (more)

With the official takeover date of March 1, 2025, I have been out trying to shoot the Iowa Northern as the CN makes changes to the railroad. Job changes came first in March, and now power changes ... (more)

With the official takeover date of March 1, 2025, I have been out trying to shoot the Iowa Northern as the CN makes changes to the railroad. Job changes came first in March, and now power changes ... (more)

The Manly to Butler job rolls past the classic ex-Rock Island depot at Rockford on the Manly Sub. The AM departure from Manly allows for easy shooting of this depot again. They will flip back at B... (more)

The IANR's BUWA is putting its train together at the south end of Butler for the trip to Waterloo. Ironically, the GP40-2LW's are former CN units. After CN officially took control of the Iowa Nort... (more)

With the CN purchase now approved, I'm glad for this last trip to the Iowa Northern. The lead motor turned 50 this month, rolling out of London, ON with a build date of 05/74... and after a short... (more)

IANR 4001 brings a plow extra for the CIC through downtown Cedar Rapids having just entered CIC property. The plow is enroute to the Amana Line which has rumored locomotive high drifts between Wal... (more)

IANR 4001 leads the "South Job" northbound past the Vinton depot, on its way to Waterloo, Iowa. Called by many names, this is the old Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway de... (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)

Stopping to pick up loads

The Iowa Northern has been running the North Crew late out of Waterloo due to rail gang getting ready to put welded rail in around Butler/Shell Rock area. Here the north crew works north from Wate... (more)

The 14:00 North crew taxied to Waterloo for this small 21 car train out of Bryant Yard. Now the crew is few miles from Butler, where their 1st stop for the night is. The IANR has the rail laid out... (more)

The South Crew has just finished up their work at La Porte and is heading back to their train south of town. Today's south crew has 6 units for power due to the tonnage on the south trip last nigh... (more)