A former Southern Pacific tunnel motor and former BRC switcher form an unlikely pair residing at the shuttle elevator in Berthold.

A westbound stack train cruises through Berthold, passing a former Southern Pacific tunnel motor that now resides at the local elevator.

Grain empties for Kindred, ND via the Red River Valley & Western at Casselton cruise downhill into Berthold in tasty light with engineer and great friend Nik Jiran at the helm.

Freshly released from the shop for an EGR modification, two of GE's Tier 4 demonstrator ES44AC's scream downhill into Berthold at 70MPH with a measly 1,455 feet of super-hot UPS traffic.

Busy in Berthold. Two Eastbound loaded crude oil trains march through downtown Berthold as the Minot based Tioga Local races West into the setting sun. Thank goodness for double track!

An old tunnel motor SD40-2 for the heavy lifting or pulling at the Berthold Farmers Elevator.

An ex-BRC TR2A, cow minus the calf, outside the Berthold Farmers Elevator in Berthold, ND.

Detoured black diamonds slither out of the siding at Berthold moments before sunset. Coal trains are rather uncommon on the ex-Great Northern, but due to a tie gang and surfacing crews on the norm... (more)

After having the Eastbound Empire Builder whizz by at 79MPH, the BNSF 7213 and company hold back 13,862 tons of fresh Bakken crude oil on a late Summer evening.

BNSF and NS units power this WB oil train just west of Minot ND.

Crickets are chirping and the mosquitoes are attacking while the sun sets on another gorgeous September evening, as a heavy stack train full of Chinese goods hustles towards Chicago at the posted ... (more)

MRL's trio of leased SD45's strolls East down the 0.6% grade into Berthold, passing a huge pile of dirt that will be used to fill in one of the many ponds along the right-of-way, allowing the seco... (more)

A duo of new ACe's takes the siding at Berthold, passing GN era searchlight signals on a cold Winter afternoon.

A CSXT GE sits on the point of an oil empty getting its first set of 14 cars loaded by the Enbridge personnel. NS's "Original NS" heritage unit is trailing.

The Berthold elevator switchers watch two SD60M's lead the Ross Turn through the siding on a cold but beautiful Winter afternoon.