The Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern's Mankato, MN to Aurora, SD manifest climbs away from the Redwood River crossing at Florence, MN.

A pair of Union Pacific GP38-2's throttle up as they switch the yard in Mankato, MN. UP 516 has always been a Union Pacific locomotive while the dynamic brake-less UP 793 was originally built for ... (more)

An eastbound Twin Cities & Western train crosses the mostly frozen Minnesota River at Morton on the former Minneapolis & St Louis Railway bridge.

A former Union Pacific and Iowa Chicago & Eastern snoot nosed SD40-2 leads the Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern's westbound train from Mankato across Plum Creek just west of Walnut Grove, MN.

One of the Twin Cities & Western's former Kennecott Copper GP39-2's and two other locomotives lead a westbound empty hopper train across the Minnesota Prairie Line on a beautiful June evening. The... (more)

An eastbound Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern train crosses an irrigation ditch west of Balaton, MN as the sun poke through the cloud cover.

A short eastbound Twin Cities & Western train made up of just a handful of cars from the elevator at North Redwood crosses the old Minneapolis & St Louis Railway trestle over Sulphur Lake just wes... (more)

The Canadian National local from Dubuque arrives in East Dubuque to interchange some cars with BNSF, passing through the crossover and under the signal bridge at East Cabin.

The Canadian National local from Dubuque crosses the Mississippi River on the former Illinois Central swing bridge between Iowa and Illinois.

The southbound Marshall local is just a few miles from its destination of the large ADM corn processing plant in Marshall as it flies around a curve just north of Green Valley, MN.

A pacing shot of two older EMD locomotives as they hustle south with the Marshall local, seen from Minnesota State Highway 23 between Granite Falls and Hanley Falls.

Eastbound Canadian Pacific train 470 waits for a new crew on the east side of Tracy, MN with a Norfolk Southern locomotive on the point. Taken at a public grade crossing.

A fairly long Twin Cities & Western train is eastbound on the Minnesota Prairie Line west of Fairfax, MN on a very windy day.

On a windy and cold March morning, an eastbound stack train fights upgrade through the curves at Lake Park as a westbound baretable train rolls toward a crew change at Dilworth Yard.

It's been a while since I've chased a train along Canadian Pacific's Paynesville Subdivision. I stumbled upon this westbound with four locomotives at Belgrade and revisited a few spots that I have... (more)