A westbound Union Pacific local cruises along the Overland Route behind some older EMD power as it makes its way between Columbus and Grand Island.

After spending the morning along the UP between Fremont and Grand Island, we planned to grab some lunch and then follow the BNSF's Ravenna Sub back east. Luckily, the BNSF local was finishing up t... (more)

A Nebraska Central SD40-2 is tied down with a single tank car on one of the elevator tracks in Stromsburg on a nice December afternoon.

On the first weekend of December, the small town of Knife River, Minnesota holds its Julebyen Festival, full of Scandinavian Christmas crafts, food, music, and games. The North Shore Scenic Railro... (more)

The westbound RCPE train from the Union Pacific interchange in Mankato to Aurora, SD rolls by the old elevator at Essig, MN on a beautiful fall evening.

An eastbound train descends the grade into the Minnesota River valley just west of North Redwood, MN, passing the Central Bi-Products facility along the way.

After waiting for some eastbound traffic at Kennard, a westbound empty coal train climbs Union Pacific's former Chicago & North Western Arlington Hill in eastern Nebraska on Thanksgiving Day 2023.

A lengthy eastbound Union Pacific train with a mix of intermodal and manifest traffic and UP and NS power descends the east side of Arlington Hill as it makes its way toward the Missouri River cro... (more)

On a gorgeous fall morning, an eastbound train crosses the wooden trestle over Sulphur Lake just west of Morton, MN.

After picking up some covered hoppers from the elevator at North Redwood, a Twin Cities & Western train backs toward the rest of its consist before continuing east toward Minneapolis.

On a crisp fall morning, an eastbound Twin Cities & Western train slowly rolls along rail laid down by the Minneapolis & St Louis Railway over 100 years ago.

Surrounded by the cornfields of west central Minnesota, a Twin Cities & Western train rolls along between Danube and Renville.

An eastbound train steps across the Redwood River on the former Minneapolis & St Louis Railway bridge just west of North Redwood, MN back in July 2016. Keen-eyed observers will note that the trail... (more)

At sunset on a frigid winter day, four CAT powered locomotives bring just three cars through Renville, MN on the Twin Cities & Western's former Milwaukee Road mainline.

There's no operator or agent in the window to greet trains, such as this single locomotive moving westbound, but at least the former Minneapolis & St Louis Railway depot still stands in Fairfax, M... (more)