After meeting their 3rd eastbound of the day, this ballast train departs Paynesville siding, putting on quite a smoke show. Ballast would be dumped later that night at Murray.

A westbound train with CEFX 1034 trailing crosses over the Crow River east of Paynesville MN.

NS 7300 heads west into Paynesville with oil empties. The train would soon exit the slow orders and be at track speed once again.

The ballast train heads west into the namesake town of the subdivision, passing a soybean field. In the background, Rice Lake can be seen.

Three units work hard to bring all 155 cars and 9700+ feet of westbound train 299 up the hill between Eden Valley and Paynesville.

I headed east hoping to see the SOO 6024 west, but that train was held at South Haven for two trains and wouldn't get out my way until dusk. A nice reflection of two GEVOs on one of my favorite br... (more)

One of the more interesting lashups I've ever seen along the CP: a former SOO SD60M leads a warbonnet, two other SD60 repaints, and an SD40-2. With a very short grain train in tow, they had very ... (more)

A westbound empty oil train glides across the trestle east of Paynesville on a calm and peaceful Halloween afternoon. The buffer car is a Southern hopper. I took my first photograph at this loca... (more)

A westbound at one of my favorite spots along the Paynesville Sub, even with the foliage a little out of control.

Some nice looking foreign power has an eastbound grain train on the move again after meeting a westbound at the siding in Paynesville. By this time, things had warmed up to about -10F.

With units leased to other roads, and being power short themselves, the CP has put together some incredible lashes. This being one of them. Three blue and yellows power up 76 loaded autoracks we... (more)

The last in a four train parade catches some of the final golden rays of a late fall sunset as it rolls along west of Paynesville.

With temperatures dropping over the last week or so, ice is starting to form on the lakes. No snow yet, though, so the fresh ice provides a decent reflection of westbound train 497 as it crosses ... (more)

A Track Evaluation Car train makes its way west across the CP's Paynesville Subdivision behind one of the railroad's unique GP20C-ECO locomotives.

One of CP's new GP20C-ECO units leads an FRA track inspection car across the Paynesville Sub on a sunny and pleasant July day.