Barn Bluff in Red Wing offers up a good view of a pair of DM&E SD40-2s leading a train up the Mississippi River.

Fall colors! The leaves are pretty too. The Chicago to Valley Park train sports some unique paint for the Altoona Sub.

Elephant style warbonnets lead a stack train through Alma early in the morning.

The Red Wing switch crew takes advantage of a brief lull in the traffic to run around the yard. The Soo Line engine on track two is stuck between cuts of cars for the ADM mill in town.

A five pack of SD40-2s rolls through the Winona State University campus in Winona, MN. A portion of the long abandoned C&NW bridge across the Mississippi River can be seen just to the right of th... (more)

An eastbound stack train races past Mississippi River Lock and Dam #4 and the scenic river town of Alma, WI.

A stack train races past a barge working its way through Mississippi River Lock and Dam #5.

A pair of veteran SD40-2s leads a train past the fall colors of John Latsch state park.

The sun is up in Minnesota, but Alma, WI is still in the shadows as a BNSF intermodal train races up the Mississippi River.

Rolling hills, windmills, and grain trains. This was the last of three unit grain trains to depart the yard in Willmar this day in 2010. The other two have already reached their destinations as ... (more)

The daily South Saint Paul to Proviso freight rolls across the Chippewa River bridge on a cool fall morning.

INRD power crawls across the Robert Street Lift Bridge in downtown Saint Paul with coke empties for the Flint Hills Resources plant in Rosemount, MN.

The sun poked through with seconds to spare for a sharp looking pair of INRD SD9043MACs. This empty coke train is headed for Flint Hills Resources in Rosemount, MN.

Indiana Rail Road power rolls up river bound for Flint Hills Resources in Rosemount, MN and another load of coke. Taken from John Latsch State Park.

Coal empties from the Columbia Energy Center outside Portage, WI head up the Mississippi River on Canadian Pacific tracks. The train will be handed back over to BNSF in the twin cities.