After meeting up with two westbounds not too far away at Ross, an eastbound empty grain train passes by a rural crossing in northwestern North Dakota.

A grain train is coming up to the signals at the west siding switch Stanley as it passes a field where new houses are about to be built. Stanley lies on the oil-rich Bakken Formation and has been ... (more)

The tail end of a loaded taconite train fresh from Keetac in Keewatin moves down BNSF's heavily forested and remote Casco Sub in northeastern Minnesota.

The last DMIR SD40-3 to wear DMIR colors brings a freshly loaded Minorca taconite train south through a crossing that runs through the middle of the intersection between St. Louis County Roads 7 a... (more)

After spending some of the day working around Keewatin, the crew of the Kelly Lake Local has moved their train into the yard at Kelly Lake and tied it down for the night. The locomotives will be f... (more)

An empty coal train cruises over the Mississippi River bridge in Brainerd. Many thanks to BNSF for recently cleaning up the graffiti on the side of the bridge!

The Brainerd Local makes a routine run up First Avenue Northeast about to deliver 5 boxcars to the Wausau Paper Corporation's Brainerd facility.

Westbound coal empties start down the curve in the tracks that leads to the Mississippi River bridge. Downtown Brainerd's historic water tower is evident on the left.

An empty coal train partly in Brainerd and partly in Baxter continues west into the light of a pleasant July evening. Brainerd's tallest building and sole "skyscraper," the North Star Apartment co... (more)

An empty grain train passes by one of the many flags waving around downtown Clara City. This train was actually a rare BNSF one-unit wonder; the DPU that the train was supposed to have on the rear... (more)

An H-train moves across the bridge in Little Falls that marks the point at which BNSF's northern transcon crosses the Mississippi River.

The H-DILLIN is overshadowed by the ADM elevators in Sioux City as it sits south of the BNSF yard waiting for a crew to bring it into Lincoln.

A lone Grand Trunk Western locomotive spends the morning of Memorial Day shuffling some cars around CN's small yard in Sioux City.

A matching pair of remote controlled switchers roll down the yard lead in Sioux City. These locomotives are about to work on collecting some cars off of the H-NTWKCK that just came in.

An empty coal train coming from Michigan rounds a curve between Ashland and Greenwood, getting up to track speed after stopping at the nearby Ashland Wye so that the H-LINDIL could proceed up the ... (more)