A great looking trio of IC&E SD40-2's departs Tower CK on train 636.

After spending over 4 hours waiting for 636 to leave town, 487 was finally able to get on the DM&E connection at Tower CK. Today DM&E 6081, 6359, and IC&E 6100 have the honors of leading 487. I wi... (more)

581 has the geeps pulling for everything they've got as the train thunders through Tower CK and out of Winona.

Hot on 298's heels is coal train 810. Today's train is headed by a faded Gevo, SD70Mac, and an ACe as a DPU.

498 rattles over the plant at Tower CK early in the morning. Today's train has 40 some cars of pipe, that will be set-out at River Junction for train 170. Once thats done, the crew will hop on cou... (more)

G-ABECSX, ethanol loads for the CSX in Chicago throttle east after getting the o.k. over the thumper detector.

Loaded iron ore train U-KEEMAD storms up to single track at Winona. I'm sure glad they had the right unit leading!

198 with a decent sized train heads through the plant at Tower CK early Monday morning.

Running at restricted speeds, 283 crawls up the main at Homer. Meanwhile train 170 is just entering the east end of the siding. Sure is great to see a pair of nice looking SD60's together.

G77 heads for the depot with 5 hoppers and a caboose, complete with another days work.

After getting tipped off about this train, I was out the door and bound down river. It was only minutes after I got to this spot when the train came hauling around the curve. 283, with just under ... (more)

While I was biking to a friends house, I heard train 486 (which I had just seen), let a westbound know they were just starting into the siding at Homer. Little did I know that the westbound was go... (more)

An ex IC GP10 puts on a show as it drags a huge sting of UP hoppers that had just been pulled from storage only moments before. (This is an image taken with my previous camera)

With the tracks slicing through town at odd angles it sure can make the roadwork interesting. Here is an example of that just east of Hamilton Street, meanwhile 198 heads east, ready to overtake 2... (more)

Trying out a new location, I was able to sang train 290 throttling out of Winona. This train was looking right at a "yellow over yellow" signal indication and was soon going to be taking the sidin... (more)