The woods and fields of the Stockton Valley are in transition from winter to spring as an empty ethanol train makes its way west across the Waseca Sub. Up ahead is the tough pull up Stockton Hill ... (more)

Winter operations means the schedule moves around a bit, normally a night move, L516 cuts through the middle of New Richmond on a Sunday morning crossing the Willow River.

Early snow persists in western Wisconsin as L517 passes a snow-laden farm on the outskirts of New Richmond, Wisconsin on its way to Minneapolis.

The local known as the "triple nickel" works the Superior Sub out of Stone Lake. On this early winter day it heads north to switch Hayward Jct. and pulpwood loading track at Stanberry.

A train of 18 empty gondolas gets underway at Landing Jct. in Ishpeming, MI. At the other end of the line this fall Eagle Mine's Humboldt Mill started refining ore mined in Marquette County.

With its expansion to the Humboldt Mill, Mineral Range is becoming one of the more interesting and classic looking shortlines in the upper midwest. Not too many years ago Lake Superior & Ishpeming... (more)

A whitetail doe takes advantage of the train pausing to flag a road crossing by running across the Mineral Range tracks.

A fresh crew is on train 474 as they begin their trip along the Mississippi River.

The daily turn from Belle Fourche to Rapid City and return plies the scenic Black Hills Sub near Whitewood, SD. At the end of the month, these three locomotives and the track they're on will have ... (more)

TCW 2300 east heads towards its namesake Twin Cities on a fine late spring morning. The TCW route is the former Milwaukee Road mainline to the west of Minneapolis.

The countdown is on as the newest Genesee & Wyoming property, the Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern, is going to transfer from CP ownership in a couple days. Three ICE SD40-2s cross the Redwater River,... (more)

The countdown is on as the newest Genesee & Wyoming property, the Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern, is going to transfer from CP ownership in a couple days. Three ICE SD40-2s climb through the Black H... (more)

The countdown is on as the newest Genesee & Wyoming property, the Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern, is going to transfer from CP ownership in a couple days. In preparation for the sale, IC&E SD40-2s h... (more)

The countdown is on as the newest Genesee & Wyoming property, the Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern, is going to transfer from CP ownership in a couple days. Along the east end of what will be the new ... (more)

Borrowed power has been all over CN this winter. Carrying over into springtime one of many NS units on CN leads L517 across the Minneapolis Sub.