On a crisp fall morning in west central Minnesota, westbound CP train 199 slowly rolls past the state land west of Sedan as the sun rises out of the fog.

Minutes after Jeremiah Rindahl captured his stunning photo of Amtrak's detouring Empire Builder at this location, the sun is breaking the horizon and the fog is beginning to dissipate over Lake As... (more)

A beautiful sunset and threatening skies accompany an eastbound hotshot as it races toward Ogallala and North Platte.

A single SD40-2 leads an empty frac sand train east through Belgrade at sunset on a beautiful summer evening.

An eastbound makes its way into Belgrade as some farm implements head out on MN 55 at sunset.

A rebuilt EMD sits on the main at Murray with a westbound as the sun rises on the summer solstice.

With the sun nearly to the horizon, two repainted SD60s hustle a westbound by a train waiting in the hole at Murray East.

A GE and an ICE SD40-2 pull an eastbound toward Brooten at sunset on Maundy Thursday 2014.

A westbound grain train with a mix of ICE, NS, and CP power accelerates out of Murray Siding in the distance and makes its way through Belgrade as the sun breaks the horizon on another sub-zero wi... (more)

An eastbound Canadian Pacific train is silhouetted against a cold winter sunset just west of Belgrade on the former Soo Line.

Our recent stretch of cold and snowy weather is a good excuse to stay inside and "dig" through old photographs. Here's one I came across from Halloween morning a few years ago of seven EMDs leadi... (more)

The windchill is down to the neighborhood of -40 as CP's Vancouver to Chicago hotshot races east from Glenwood at sunset.

The sun is beginning to set on a beautiful winter day in North Dakota as an eastbound oil train crosses high over Lake Ashtabula near Luverne.

It's Christmas Eve and my last train before CP shuts down for the Christmas holiday was a beauty: an SD30C-ECO (CP 5019), a GP20C-ECO (CP 2203) and a GP38 (CP 3020) lead train 499 out of a nice su... (more)

Waiting for a switch crew to clear ahead of them gave the sun just enough time to get into perfect position for a nice silhouette of these three veteran workhorses as they dragged their train of l... (more)