Dust and exhaust from a loaded BNSF coal train mix with an already hazy atmosphere as the sun sets over western North Dakota.

After leaving ballast cars at Wood Lake, MN, Minnesota Prairie Line power is returning east near Echo, MN. MPLI is a subsidiary of Twin Cities and Western and uses their power, in this case TCWR 3... (more)

UP 5517 leads a train of crude oil from North Dakota's Bakken Oil Field over Canadian Pacific's New Town sub between Butte and Kief, ND. This is a former Soo Line branch that ran from Drake to San... (more)

DMVW 7510 leads grain loads from Fullerton, ND, eastward over the former Soo Line east of Oakes, ND.

CP's Max Roadswitch on the New Town sub near Butte, ND

CP's Max Roadswitch heads east near Parshall, ND, with a quintet of Geeps pulling grain and crude oil loads from New Town, ND.

DME train 277 round the curve near Lake Benton, MN

DME train 487 waits in the hole at Cobden, MN, for opposition not yet out of Tracy while lighting and thunderstorms rage over southern Minnesota

An empty BNSF coal train heads east under unusual skies on the former Northern Pacific main line east of Medina, ND.

CP called out a plow extra to flange and spread some problem drifts near Fingal, ND. The plow was facing the wrong way at Enderlin so they ran it eastward to turn it on the wye at Veblen Jct. befo... (more)

CP called out a plow extra to flange and spread some problem drifts near Fingal, ND. The plow was facing the wrong way at Enderlin so they ran it eastward to turn it on the wye at Veblen Jct. befo... (more)

CP called out a plow extra to flange and spread some problem drifts near Fingal, ND. The plow was facing the wrong way at Enderlin so they ran it eastward to turn it on the wye at Veblen Jct. befo... (more)

DMVW 7505 West is a few miles east of Fullerton, ND, with 100 empty Js bound for the elevator in town.

DMVW 7505 West is just out of Geneseo, ND with 100 empty Js for Fullerton, ND. Trailing the leader is DMVW 7510, both former Wisconsin Central SD45s of the same number.

Pulling grain loads east from Nekoma for the CP Rail connection at Thief River Falls, MN.