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CN's L565 local switches the large Big River United Energy ethanol plant on the west side of Dyersville in northeast Iowa. Dyersville only has a population of about 4000, but has garnered global notoriety in baseball lore for hosting the movie site for Field of Dreams.
L56591 26 (Local- Dubuque, IA to Manchester, IA and return)
GTW GP38-2 #6225
GTW GP38-2 #5844
Dyersville, IA
May 26th, 2022
Coming from an area (NW Ohio) that is *really* flat, Iowa features a lot of gently rolling farm country and some real hills in places, especially along the Mississippi River. In this view Iowa Interstate's Rock Island heritage unit IAIS 513 leading BICR-30 is soaring above N Division Street in Davenport Iowa as it really starts to attack the climb up the hill you can see in the background. While the road runs straight up it, the railroad twists and turns its way northwest until it mounts the hills along the big muddy and strikes off across the gently rolling countryside to Iowa City, Des Moines and Omaha. 8/31/2024
A mild, mid-February day when much of the snow melted in south-central Iowa as sunset colored the sky. . .
A perfect combination of Red Barns and green trees on a snowy winter day Sony A7III Sony 24-105G lens
IAIS BISW doubles up at the west end of Blue Island Yard with the previous morning's SIBI power. On the adjacent yard leads, the 594 job works the Blue Island hump and BP2 prepares to depart for Proviso with a pair of retro GP40-3s.
Iowa Northern Railroad Train BUWA is seen shoving westbound on the CN in Waterloo, IA. The train had just dropped a healthy cut of interchange traffic in CN's Waterloo Yard and is shoving to clear West Waterloo before proceeding back to home rails towards Bryant Yard. Starting February 13th, the STB has allowed the CN to begin taking over Iowa Northern's operations, marking the end of yet another shortline. Photo taken January 26th 2025.
Some Iowa Interstate Locomotive power sits resting in the yard at South Amana, IA, on an early July morning
The eastbound was a little later than usual allowing me to grab this shot of it going through Tiffin.
Don't have any sand to put in the kids sandbox? Fill it with shelled corn instead. Photographed at Pheasant Run Farm near Belle Plaine in Benton County, Iowa #PheasantRunFarmIowa
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For a brief period in the early 90s, the Keokuk Junction had weekend excursions using a pair of ex-P&W / SEPTA "Strafford" Cars. The car towed a generator cart for power and went on a very lengthy trip through the farmlands of western Illinois and Iowa. One of the cars is seen here at LaHarpe IL in 1993.
A few modifications were added to the ends in order to allow boarding from track level instead of the high platforms that had been used in Philadelphia.
A pair of Chicago and North Western SD40-2s roll an eastbound freight through Otis, Iowa on a nice fall morning in 1995.
The recent Union Pacific takeover hadn't placed any negative crimping of the North-Western style on the motive power front; that would soon change.
Iowa Traction BLW Steeple Cab No. 60, with the trolley pole temporarily down, crosses 19th Street SW with a Southern Pacific boxcar that was just switched out from a warehouse here in Mason City, Iowa, on February 28, 2025. Steeple Cab No. 60 was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1917 for the Youngstown and Ohio River Railroad and is the oldest motor car on the Iowa Traction's active roster. The boxcar will be taken to the interchange track with the Union Pacific.
Using a rebuilt GP38 as its primary power (along with a GP30 that was parked somewhere else on this day), the Iowa River Railroad operates about 7 miles of former M&StL trackage in central Iowa. The railroad runs from an interchange with CN at Ackley down to the Pine Lake Corn Processors ethanol plant at Cleves, the only customer on the line.
IARR GP38M #3802
Cleves, IA
November 25th, 2023
Iowa Interstate train DAVPE a loaded potash train for Peoria, IL makes its way by the Sheffield Tower at track speed in Sheffield, IL
With the haze of a Canadian wildfire filtering the sunlight, Rock Island E6 630 was posing for pictures during a fundraiser in Manly, Iowa.
Hopefully the 630 will be made operational and get some mainline time.
Iowa Interstate's BICB-06 crosses the Mississippi River and CPKC's Davenport Subdivision on its way west to South Amana. The Mississippi River floodwaters are still high in downtown Davenport, but things are returning to normal as far as the railroad is concerned with the reactivation of signals and fewer track patrols.
May 7, 2023
An Iowa Chicago & Eastern eastbound freight is stopped just short of the small trestle over Cheslea Creek near downtown Mason City, Iowa, on April 15, 2008. The train is waiting on a pick up off the Iowa Traction Railroad. The photo was taken from the South Pierce Avenue crossing.
LTZ48 passes the Havelock, Ia elevator as it heads west on the Laurens Subdivision for Albert City. Nothing quite screams Iowa railroading like grain elevators and the trains that serve them.
4-16-2009
You would be standing right on the state line between Iowa and Nebraska if you were in the middle of this bridge. It is a toll bridge in Bellevue, Nebraska. For the one dollar you escape most of the traffic on the interstate if you are headed to Bellevue or the Offut Air Force Base. SAC (Strategic Air Command) is located about three miles from this spot. This is the Air Force base which President Bush landed on 9/11. The Missouri River forms the boundary between IA and NE here. Two hundred years ago Louis and Clark would have passed this exact spot.
Dickson Cemetery in Iowa was filled with photos. I could have spent hours there. I had only about 15 minutes, unfortunately. So I set up my tripod and step stool and shot this (as well as a few others inside).
While the fence takes focus, the two obvious stones belong to Samuel and Lucretia Spurgeon. Sam has the more rounded stone, while Lucretia has the flatter one.
The were married in November of 1855 in Iowa, though Sam was born in Ohio, while Lucretia was from Iowa. Together they had two children. Havila Milton Spurgeon and Elizabeth Ann.
To the left of the tree are two other stones. These are for John and Ann Spurgeon, Sam's parents. John was also from Ohio, and his father was from Pennsylvania. We can see the generations migrating state-by-state.
John and Ann had twelve children, one of whom (Charles) is buried in this cemetery - it's the stone on the other side of the tree.
Though most of the stones in the Dickson Cemetery are in good shape, the stones belonging to John, Ann and Charles have been broken and repaired.
Samuel died in 1874 at the age of 45. Lucretia was 41. Six years remarried. His name was David K. Butrick. She divorced him on Independence Day, 1889. Five years more, she married William Petty. She was his third wife. They divorced shortly after, as by 1907 William was married to his fourth wife.
Lucritia died alone and penniless in 1911. The newspaper read:
Carroll Times - Thursday , July 6th, 1911 - M.R. Neu, taking remains of pauper, Mrs. Spurgeon to Glidden, casket and box and burying Henry Meyers of Carroll casket etc. and ambulance $54.
She was buried next to Samuel.
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'Vanta'
Camera: Chamonix 45F-2
Lens: Steinheil München Anastigmat Actinar 4.5; 135mm
Film: Fomapan 100
Exposure: f/6.3; 1/25sec
Process: FA-1027; 1+14; 9min
Iowa
July 2023
Iowa Interstate train BICB (Blue Island, Illinois, to Council Bluffs, Iowa) is rolling through the siding meeting its counterpart CBBI at Anita, Iowa, on April 12, 2016. GE ES44AC No. 516 leading BICB is painted in a special Rock Island-inspired paint scheme celebrating IAIS’s 30th Anniversary.
The main reason for my visit to the CN Dubuque Sub in northeastern Iowa was to see the topography of the line first hand. Much of the line between Waterloo and Manchester follows the contour of the rolling fields and hills common in this portion of the state. Eastbound Waterloo to Kirk Yard train M338 prepares to descend one of the many hogbacks found on this line as it approaches a crossing between the small towns of Raymond and Jesup.
I took this in the first Iowa cemetery I visited this past summer. I didn't spend a lot of time in the state, though I have explored it pretty well a few years back.
Though the grave looks lonesome and solitery, I was feet away from a busy two-lane, with trucks and cars passing by at an almost constant rate.
I remember spending quite a lot of time setting up this shot. I wanted something fitting for the disarray of the stone and grave itself. Placing the camera at an angle (I'm almost always so careful about levels), and through the use of movements, I exaggerated the oddness of this little space.
The camera was high above it and I stood on tip toes to see through the glass.
When I pulled this shot out of the tank, I was immediately taken by the negative. I try not to judge the final photo by how the negative looks - I do my best not to even look at them. But this time around, I was excited to see what I got.
And what I got was this .
Hazel Waite lived for only seven months in 1900. Her parents, Malden and Evelyn, had two other children who lived incredibly long lives. While all were buried in Iowa, Little Hazel is the only one in this Sioux County cemetery.
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'But Not For Me'
Camera: Chamonix 45F-2
Lens: Schneider-Kreuznach Super-Angulon 8/90mm
Film: Fomapan 100
Exposure: f/8; 1/200sec
Process: FA-1027; 1+14; 9min
Iowa
July 2023