I've seen this SW1200 at the grain elevator between Clarks and Central City many times, but this was the first time I'd seen it attached to some cars and somewhere other than it's usual parking sp... (more)

A westbound empty coal train rolls through Gibbon Jct on a nice November afternoon, entering the triple track Kearney Subdivision off of the Marysville Subdivision.

An eastbound Union Pacific train sits near the end of the double track east of Fremont, NE at sunset on Thanksgiving Day. Hopeful that the silence along the rails was a sign that many of the worke... (more)

Playing out a scene that has occurred countless times since coal began to move across Nebraska on the former Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, two trains meet on double track just west of Grand Island... (more)

A single Kansas City Southern SD70ACe leads an empty coal train across the Nebraska farmland west of Ravenna. Two more locomotives are operating as distributed power units on the end of the train.... (more)

A westbound empty coal train enters the Union Pacific's famed triple track mainline at Gibbon Jct on a beautiful November afternoon.

Five locomotives, including one Canadian National unit, lead an eastbound manifest across the Platte River near Denman, Nebraska.

After waiting on a westbound manifest to run around a track inspector, the Union Pacific local gets underway eastbound out of Columbus, NE on a Friday morning. While the crowds were out chasing th... (more)

Two EMD's from CSX lead an empty ethanol train around a curve on the Minnesota Prairie Line just west of Norwood Young America, MN.

A leased former Southern Railway GP38-2 leads a Twin Cities & Western train past the restored Minneapolis & St Louis Railway depot in Fairfax, MN on a cold and windy spring morning in April 2018. ... (more)

At sunset on the Sunday after Thanksgiving in 2017, the Union Pacific local out of Worthington arrives to do some work at the Minnesota Soybean Processors plant just north of the small town of Bre... (more)

With steam still rising off of the freshly baked taconite pellets, a set of EMD power rolls toward Two Harbors, rounding a curve just north of Wales Jct. A former Illinois Central locomotive still... (more)

The Twin Cities & Western is working to move sand cars out of storage at the west end of the Minnesota Prairie Line on a chilly winter morning in February 2017. With frost clinging to the approxim... (more)

Three older EMD locomotives lead a Northtown to Grand Forks manifest across Minnesota on a nice early spring evening back in 2017, seen from the US Highway 10 overpass west of New York Mills.

Back in March 2017, a pair of Montana Rail Link locomotives were sent east from Montana to pay back some horsepower hours to the BNSF. On their way back west from Minneapolis, they were put at the... (more)