A pair of remote control GP38-2's work a Union Pacific local north of Des Moines, Iowa on a summer evening, pulling a cut of cars out of the Hull Avenue Yard and up the Ankeny Industrial Lead. The... (more)

Led by a solo AC4400, a southbound Union Pacific autorack train pounds the diamond across the Iowa Interstate in Des Moines, Iowa while a pair of SD40N's working a yard job in the UP Shortline Yar... (more)

Chicago and North Western, C&NW SD40's 871- 879, at Des Moines, Iowa. June 15, 1981. Jack D Kuiphoff photo ©

Storage, and SO MUCH to see here. GP7's, GP30's F's, cabooses, and freight cars with no graffiti. C&NW, yard, Des Moines, Iowa. January 13, 1983. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

C&NW, Chicago and North Western GP7 4357, built as QNS&L 111- GP7 4450, built as SLSF 570, with a local at Des Moines, Iowa, June 16, 1981. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

A late running CBBI finishes work in downtown Des Moines with Iowa Interstate's Rock Island painted ES44AC over a fresh layer of snow.

Grabbing some tank cars.

A pair of GP38-2s push in a string of freshly loaded fuel tankers.

Yard switching with a trainee using the Beltpack.

After leading a manifest into Des Moines, Iowa, a Union Pacific SD70M and AC4400CW break down their train on the inbound tracks at Shortline Yard. Once the crew drops this last cut of cars, they ... (more)

A trio of trains meet briefly at Union Pacific's Hull Avenue Yard on the east side of Des Moines, Iowa. UP 2711 is slowly rolling south with a loaded ethanol train as it approaches the signals for... (more)

A pair of GP's are hard at work on the east end of Union Pacific's Shortline Yard in Des Moines, Iowa pulling across a set of drainage culverts as they sort out blocks of cars.

A solo Union Pacific ET44AC leads a southbound loaded ethanol train as it departs from Des Moines, Iowa on the Trenton Subdivision. After getting the light across the Iowa Interstate and BNSF diam... (more)

A pair of GP's working on the Union Pacific yard job out of Shortline Yard in Des Moines, Iowa has taken a long cut out of the yard, pulling east for headroom on to Iowa Interstate's Newton Sub. T... (more)

Operating on a section of track far removed from the Norfolk Southern system, a pair of NS GP38-2's on DU90 take four tank cars west after picking them up from Helena Industries in Des Moines, Iow... (more)