CP 8711 leads a freight toward the Twin Cities passing through rural Kellogg, MN on a cloudy, rainy day that provided very interesting, moody conditions for photos.

PGR's Eagandale job switches customers in Eagan, MN on a Monday morning.

Minnesota Commercial power spends its Sunday evening at their shops awaiting the call to duty on Monday morning.

MILW #261 arrives into Duluth, MN, only minutes away from its destination at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in brilliant sunshine while a nasty storm heads across Lake Superior. Those clouds d... (more)

A CP transfer arrives at Dayton's Bluff with three new GP20Cs and a verteran SOO Line GP38-2 on a cold, clear day in the twin cities.

CP's Dresser Turn departs Humboldt Yard and crosses the Mississippi River for the ballast pit at Dresser, WI with a nice SD60/SD40-2 set.

As we chased MILW 261 northbound on the Hinckley Sub, we found this interesting southbound to photograph. In a consist that would make you swear it was the mid-1990s, a trio of whiteface BN paint... (more)

An interesting trio of locomotives on the CN job that shuttles ore loads and empties to the docks on Lake Superior silhouette against an interesting sky.

In a scene from the hey day of steam, Milwaukee Road, Soo Line, and Chicago & Northwestern equipment gathers at what could be a yard from the 1950s, alas it is 2013 and the great folks at the Lak... (more)

MILW 261 struts her stuff crossing the Kettle River in rural Sandstone, MN on her way north from Minneapolis to Duluth on her inaugural public excursion after her extensive rebuild.

An unpatched SP AC4400CW leads an eastbound stack train across the Sunset Route toward New Orleans, passing the celebratory water tower in the small town of La Coste praising their state high scho... (more)

A pair of rebuilt SD40-2s, now called SD40Ns on UP, awaits for traffic ahead on the ex-WP Shafter Sub. A cold and crisp February morning with gorgeous sunlight combines to make a beautiful scene.

Three Ferromex units lead a BNSF trackage rights train eastbound across the UP Del Rio Sub bound for San Antonio and eventually to the BNSF ex-Santa Fe yard in Temple. The train is slowing here a... (more)

A southbound mixed freight from San Antonio traverses the lightly used Corpus Christi Sub on its way to its namesake city with a sole, patched SP leader. A great way to spend a spring day in Texa... (more)

An eastbound manifest freight from the Ferromex interchange at the Mexican border at Eagle Pass, TX crosses an aged ex-SP truss bridge still in service on the Sunset Route in Uvalde, TX.