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12/30/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Iowa Northern Ry
Model:EMD GP9Built As:NP 230 (GP9)
Serial Number:20317Order No:5384
Frame Number:5384-13Built:6/1955
Notes:Ex-NP
Other locos with this serial:  IANR 1856(GP9) BN 1856(GP9)
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On the other side of town
Title:  On the other side of town
Description:  The big show in Waterloo was the Chicago Central & Pacific, which was quite busy the day I was there. On my way out toward Mason City, I caught this Iowa Northern train, doing its best to impersonate a BN local. IANR would later have a very attractive scheme, but for now, it was a pair of BN geeps to work its piece of the ex Rock. ***UPDATE for early 2024*** CN is acquiring the IANR, so that road will now become a fallen flag.
Photo Date:  6/22/1987  Upload Date: 5/7/2015 4:48:01 AM
Location:  Waterloo, IA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  IANR 1856(GP9) IANR 1894(GP9)
Views:  521   Comments: 0
Working local
Title:  Working local
Description:  Iowa Northern local works a lumber yard before heading out of town. It runs a segment of the Roc”!Island, one of many that found life as a short line after the Rocks 1980 demise.
Photo Date:  6/22/1987  Upload Date: 5/7/2015 4:50:01 AM
Location:  Waterloo, IA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  IANR 1856(GP9) IANR 1894(GP9)
Views:  472   Comments: 0
Iowa Northern (IANR)
Title:  Iowa Northern (IANR)
Description:  For years, the IANR got by with these two geeps. Their arrival at the CNW Cedar Rapids yard was a regular occurance. Today, they are parked behind our rail anchor pile (I was on the track crew in this yard at the time).
Photo Date:  9/9/1989  Upload Date: 7/14/2014 9:02:41 PM
Location:  Cedar Rapids, IA
Author:  John Schumann
Categories: 
Locomotives:  IANR 1894(GP9) IANR 1856(GP9)
Views:  893   Comments: 1
IANR 1856 & 1894
Title:  IANR 1856 & 1894
Description:  In the early days, Iowa Northern struggled to stay afloat. For quite a while, they ran these 2 Geeps as main power, after a host of ex Rock Island EMDs failed and were struck on deadlines around the system. When I was a trackman for CNW, the arrival of IANR in the CNW Cedar Rapids yard was an every-other day occurance, always behind these 2 units. IANR chalked in small letters on the hoods was the only indicator of the owner.
Photo Date:  9/12/1989  Upload Date: 11/25/2010 11:08:32 AM
Location:  Cedar Rapids, IA
Author:  John Schumann
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Locomotives:  IANR 1856(GP9) IANR 1894(GP9)
Views:  1316   Comments: 2


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