Milwaukee 261 rolls along the west side of the Mississippi River heading to Kansas City from St. Paul.

Early evening at the Milwaukee Road's New Albin Depot.

Extra Balast train that did 474's pickup is work and now it's way South.

A trio of Blue and Golds leads a loaded KCS feeder train down the Marquette Sub making for a whopping seven ICE Blue and Gold SD40-2s running down the River. It was a nice morning to say the least... (more)

SOO 6038 slices through the fog just south of New Ablin Iowa. This consist was like a throwback to the 90s when SOO SD60s were king on the Marquette Sub. Now after a few changes in hand, SOO SD60s... (more)

Consist includes SOO 6049, DME 6097, ICE 6217, CP 6045, CP 8275, and DME 6069.

Nice SOO power on the daily St. Paul - Kansas City Manifest made for a great Friday off of work.

DME train 270 heads south towards Marquette, IA. I was very grateful the GEs were trailing.

Number 3000 on RP.Net turns out to be today's 170 train as it approaches Kains siding where it will stop and change crews. The original crew had to give an engine to CP train 183 at Homer, MN on ... (more)

A CWR train heads south on the DM&E Marquette Subdivision after sitting for several days in the LaCrescent, MN yard. This is my first photo at NSS Kains.

A beautiful late summer morning and two blue-yellow engines on 271. It doesn't get much better.