The daily eastbound train out of Tracy is slowing to a stop in the tiny town of Cobden, MN on a nice July morning back in 2016. At the time RCPE power was fairly common on these trains east of Tra... (more)

A unit grain train curves through the small town of Morristown, SD on a pristine summer evening.

A westbound BNSF freight train enters South Dakota as it climbs away from the Minnesota River valley on a nice autumn evening. In the distance is Ortonville, MN. Keen eyes will notice the extra di... (more)

A high hood GP9 leads an Otter Tail Valley Railroad train of empty tank cars across the frozen Minnesota landscape just south of Barnesville.

From this angle, the immense bridge over the Sheyenne River at Valley City, ND looks like a wall of steel. An eastbound BNSF train makes the crossing in March 2017.

On Easter Sunday evening in 2017, back when there were still some RCPE SD40-2s in blue and yellow paint, an empty ethanol train rolls through the hills of the Buffalo Ridge in western Minnesota on... (more)

An eastbound manifest weaves its way into the former Great Northern division point of Willmar, MN on a nice summer morning. A bulkhead flat on the adjacent track allows some sunlight to fall on th... (more)

A westbound manifest behind Union Pacific and Kansas City Southern power kicks up a little snow as it hustles downgrade toward Denison, IA, seen at the US Highway 30 overpass east of Vail.

An eastbound stack train enters the Boone Subdivision off of the Omaha Subdivision at Missouri Valley. The 7026 is one of the locomotives Union Pacific ordered in the late 90's from GE with the in... (more)

A rebuilt AC4400CW sits with a westbound stack train on the Boyer River bridge as it waits for a couple of eastbounds out of Council Bluffs to clear the single track south of Missouri Valley, IA.

Three EMD locomotives lead a southbound Canadian Pacific train through Detroit Lakes, MN.

A southbound BNSF grain train works uphill toward Florence, MN on a nice summer evening.

A westbound grain train rolls across the 100+ year old bridge the Great Northern built across the Sheyenne River valley when it constructed the Surrey Cutoff between Fargo and Minot, ND. Since the... (more)

An eastbound empty sand train crosses Lake Ashtabula near Luverne, ND behind a rainbow consist of NS and BNSF power.

Two BNSF GE's lead a westbound grain train across the large bridge over Lake Ashtabula on the former Great Northern Surrey Cutoff between Fargo and Minot, ND.