Two brand new ES44s meet an eastbound at University Avenue just east of Northtown Yard. The locomotives are making their first trip west on the CSX-Pasco.

A B&LE rebuild leads a Minorca loaded taconite ore train down Steelton Hill at Nopeming Jct. The Bessemer unit is substituting for one of the gray WC/CN SD40-2s.

The Valley Park-Proviso freight is kicking up the snow as it passes the old Omaha Road depot and crosses the former Green Bay & Western at Merrillan.

It's almost a whiteout as IC&E's eastbound train from Mason City to Marquette, Iowa is about to pass under Highway 218 just west of Charles City.

A unit ethanol train heads south on the IC&E near Blooming Prairie on a snowy Monday morning.

Progressive Rail's turn to Lakeville heads north out of Northfield to head up the former Minneapolis, Northfield & Southern main line. SD39 40 is ex-MN&S 40, while behind it is ex-Reserve Mining S... (more)

An eastbound BNSF train with an NS units leading rolls past an old track panel on the former Northern Pacific main line through Minneapolis.

A new GE leads a slow moving coal train past an old barn in Kirkwood.

Two GP30s cross the line to Ashland and move past the Prentice depot with train 910. After some switching the train will continue east to Gladstone, Mich. and eventually Sault Ste. Marie.

The sun is setting on the South Dakota prairie as SDL39 585 brings the Sisseton Local south toward its namesake city on a below zero December day. In just a few more days this branch line will be ... (more)

A empty ore train from Escanaba, Mich to the Minorca Mine near Virginia, Minn. heads west on the CN's ex-WC/Soo Line at Hawkins. If the rumors are true, this will be the last season for these move... (more)

A loaded ore train from the Minorca Mine near Virginia, Minn. to Escanabe, Mich. heads east on the CN's ex-WC main line south of Murry. The train is mde up of WC ballast hoppers.

The local from Prentice to Wausau departs Prentice with after swapping trains with the local from Ashland, Wis.

WGN's two ex-C&NW F7s - the restored 423 and the derelict 400 wait away the winter by the Spooner depot.

It's the first warm day of spring as train 161 bangs across the diamond with C&NW's Alco line and past the CGW depot at Dodge Center en route from St. Paul to Oelwein, Iowa. F3A 202 was formerly C... (more)