A southbound empty coal train blasts through the small town of Maynard, MN as the local elevator's power gets some mechanical attention on a spring afternoon.

River, road, and rail all carry commerce through downtown Saint Paul. The waterfront area of the state capitol has undergone numerous changes over the years. At one time, steamboat moorings and wa... (more)

On one of its first excursions since being restored and repainted, Milwaukee Road E9 number 32A leads a Twin Cities & Western 30th Anniversary employee special along the former Milwaukee Road main... (more)

In a couple of previous posts, I showed a couple of eastbound trains coming through downtown Springfield, MN, illustrating the view before a... (more)

A Dakota & Iowa rock train departs Dell Rapids on a beautiful fall morning in October 2021.

A cold February day afforded me the opportunity to walk out onto the frozen surface of Sulfur Lake and capture the passage of an eastbound Twin Cities & Western train as it crossed the old wooden ... (more)

A pair of run-through Kansas City Southern locomotives power an eastbound loaded coal train into York on the BNSF's mainline across Nebraska. My best friend from college was the sports editor for ... (more)

Four SD40-2's roll a westbound quickly through the curves of the slight line relocation west of Cobden, MN that was the result of an overpass replacement project back in Dakota, Minnesota & Easter... (more)

An eastbound UP freight train rolls by on the high iron as Frontier Cooperative's GP7 shoves a cut of loaded hopper cars down the elevator track in North Bend, NE on a frosty January morning. The ... (more)

A low angle view of an SD40-2 as a Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern train sits, tied down and waiting for a new crew on the east side of Tracy, MN.

A westbound BNSF empty crude oil train dusts snow and ice from the rails at Hawley on a bitterly cold winter morning in western Minnesota.

A hole in the clouds has opened up late in the afternoon of a February day as a westbound TC&W train behind 5 locomotives approaches the sugar beet plant at Ruebel between Danube and Renville, MN.... (more)

On a bitterly cold February day, the Twin Cities & Western was out on the far western end of the Minnesota Prairie Line to retrieve some covered hoppers from storage. They're seen passing the old ... (more)

The large grain elevators in downtown Gibbon, MN tower over an eastbound Twin Cities & Western train as it slowly rolls through town on the Minnesota Prairie Line behind a pair of EMD locomotives ... (more)

The southbound Detroit Lakes Sub wayfreight has pulled onto the elevator track at Parkers Prairie, MN to let a northbound 299 train pass on a nice late winter evening.