A pair of blue ACe's lead the daily "Day Gas" train on the Flathead river along MRL's 10th Subdivision.

After doing some work in Logan, the Livingston Local sporting a pair of veteran GP35s heads east toward Manhattan. MRL 405 MRL 404

MRL 259 and 255 have the honors of bringing rail up to Tuscor, the location of a recent derailment of about 30 coal cars. This was the first train we ran into on our MRL adventure.

Passing by an abandoned homestead on the Flathead River, Montana Rail Link’s Day Gas Local heads back to Missoula, Montana on MRL's 10th Subdivision.

Departing Trident along the Gallatin River, Montana Rail Link’s 844 local heads back to Logan with twelve cars of cement.

Running solo, CP 6248 (ex-SOO 6048) pulls its empty phosphate train into the siding at Loretto.

CP198 makes it way into the Twin Cities in near whiteout conditions.

IC 6251 leads a pair of tunnel motors and an empty ore train up Proctor Hill.

A Canadian National empty taconite train is close to reaching the top of Proctor Hill. Here IC 6251 is seen just before passing under Skyline Parkway in Proctor. The oil refinery in Superior, Wi... (more)

Train 40B-12 crosses over the 904 feet Canadian Pacific Camden Place Rail Bridge in Minneapolis. CP 1401 CP 1900 CP 4107 CP 4106

CP 2246 pulls the 2017 Canadian Pacific Holiday Train into Golden Valley, Minnesota for it's 2nd stop and performance of the evening. Unfortunately it looks like the days are numbered for this ph... (more)

With a bitter cold end to 2017, a empty taconite train passes through Gilbert, MN as it head toward Mintac for another fresh load of pellets.

One of the last T-bird runs of 2017 bring with it bitter cold temperatures. The overnight night low was a cool -27 F but the daylight sun brought the air temp up a bit to -15 for this shot.

A Kansas City Southern Belle brings some color to a late February winter storm.

The CP Northfield Job passes over the 940 ft long St. Paul Union Pacific Vertical-lift Rail Bridge.