The lines on the frozen river were just incredible this morning as an old Milwaukee Road bandit heads east thru Maple Springs with a train for Kansas City.

Cicero Yard in Chicago was sure being friendly to railfans last night when they assigned a matched set of warbonnets on this Z train heading for Montana.

A lucky find on this Christmas eve eve was the daily Z train from Chicago to Montana hustling west on the jointed rail of the Appleton Sub.

On a brisk fall morning, a trio of Norfolk Southern units head for a crew change in Willmar with ethanol loads from Aberdeen, SD. This train will be handed over to Norfolk Southern in Chicago to ... (more)

After waiting for two westbounds in Sanborn, the Jamestown to Dilworth local is back on the move east as it heads over Valley City.

A northbound manifest flies over the Kettle River near Sandstone on a beautiful fall afternoon in northern Minnesota.

Two locomotives were plenty of power for this short priority merchandise train as it is already back up to speed after meeting one at Luverne.

The catch of the day in North Dakota was this pair of sparkling Silver and Red warbonnets flying high above Lake Astabula near Luverne, ND. I certainly had a big smile after grabbing this picture... (more)

The Jamestown Local had some great old power on it this afternoon as it headed east for Dilworth.

After waiting for maintence of way to clear, this priority intermodal train from British Columbia snakes through the Sheyanne River Valley into Valley City. A recent change on the CP now has this... (more)

It is only a few minutes after the sun came up as this double stack train from British Columbia heads east out of Glenwood.

A trio of GEs cruise along a field of soy beans west of Willmar as they head for the small town of Alberta, MN. The Cargill elevator in Alberta sees about one train a week, but an ongoing expansi... (more)

A long 496 pulls away from Eden Valley on a bright late summer morning. I've wanted to try this shot for a while...if only the trees on the left were not there.

While it was great to see an old Soo Line SD60 riding the rails again, it would have been really nice if the CP had decided to put it up front as the leader.

A trio of the newest power on BNSF heads west into the setting sun near Hawley. The lead unit is a shiny new ES44C4 on one of its first trips through Minnesota.