Brooks describes it as a “cut-down, jalopy locomotive.” The Iowa Northern Railway’s customers include ADM and Quaker Oats in Cedar Rapids, Hawkeye Renewables in Shell Rock and Fairbank Tyson ...

Both locomotives — an E-6 No. 630 from the 1930s and a E-8 No. 652 from the 1950s — “passed through Manly many times over the years,” said Iowa Northern Railway President Dan Sabin.