After picking up a few cars at the yard in town, CP's daily eastbound train on the former Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern gets underway toward Mankato, crossing the Cottonwood River. Norfolk Southern ... (more)

An empty coal train approaches the US Highway 14 overpass at Florence, MN, working hard up the grade out of Marshall toward the top of the Buffalo Ridge. A rebuilt SD70MAC and an SD70ACe do the ho... (more)

A rebuilt SD70MAC leads an empty coal train upgrade through the Redwood River valley at Camden State Park south of Marshall, MN.

A trio of EMD locomotives sit on the servicing tracks in Willmar as yet more snow falls on an early March day. A GE can be seen getting a spin on the turntable in the distance on the left.

After waiting for the Canadian Pacific to deliver a BNSF grain train to the elevator in the distance, the Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern's Mankato, MN to Aurora, SD manifest is back on the move on a... (more)

The first light of the last day of 2020 sets an eastbound Union Pacific coal train aglow as it crosses the BNSF at Fremont, NE. This was most likely the last Union Pacific coal train destined for ... (more)

After waiting on a northbound manifest to clear the diamonds, another UP coal train makes its way east through Fremont, crossing the BNSF's line between Lincoln and Sioux City. The unique blue hop... (more)

After the grade separation project at Grand Island was completed in the 1990's, the diamonds at Fremont were left as the only such at-grade crossing on the Union Pacific's Overland Route mainline ... (more)

Four locomotives lead a lengthy Canadian Pacific train westbound on a blustery spring day in west central Minnesota.

A lone telegraph pole remains in place as milepost 216 along the former Chicago & North Western near Revere, MN as a Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern train heads west on a nice spring evening.

A former Santa Fe Dash 9 leads a southbound freight, working hard uphill along the Redwood River valley and through Camden State Park, a few miles south of Lynd, MN.

The southbound Marshall Local out of Willmar rolls across the Minnesota River and into Granite Falls, MN.

Having spent the better part of the day in clouds at this location, the last train we would see barely catches some sunlight on its head end as it rolls off of the large bridge over Lake Ashtabula... (more)

An eastbound Twin Cities & Western train is dwarfed by the large grain elevator and bins on either side of the tracks in downtown Gibbon, MN.

A westbound RCPE train briefly disturbs a peaceful summer evening in the small town of Balaton, MN.