An eastbound train crosses Crow Creek on its way through the Minnesota River valley between North Redwood and Morton, MN. The concrete and steel structure replaced a wooden trestle back in summer ... (more)

The hills of the Buffalo Ridge surround a southbound BNSF manifest between Ruthton and Holland, MN as one of the area's numerous wind turbines stands in the distance.

A southbound grain train with three big GE's up front curves and climbs toward the US 14 overpass at Florence, MN.

An eastbound train on the Minnesota Prairie Line passes the restored Minneapolis & St Louis Railway depot at Fairfax.

The rolling hills of the Buffalo Ridge surround a southbound BNSF grain train as it hustles through southwest Minnesota.

A couple of old grain elevators along the former Great Northern in Russell, MN look on as an example of the modern unit grain trains that made them obsolete rolls by.

Working its way toward Minneapolis with some grain loads from North Redwood, an eastbound train crosses Sulphur Lake near the former Minneapolis & St Louis Railway division point of Morton, MN. It... (more)

An eastbound train rolls along the Minnesota Prairie Line between Fairfax and Gibbon. The vast and fertile farmland of west central Minnesota would normally be covered in a blanket of deep snow at... (more)

Evidence of some work on the Excel Energy transmission lines sits nearby as an eastbound train slowly makes its way along the Minnesota Prairie Line east of Franklin, MN on a breezy but mild Febru... (more)

In some of the last sunlight of a nice February evening, a lengthy southbound BNSF manifest claws its way to the top of the grade from Marshall to Florence, MN. A cloud bank was moving in, so the ... (more)

After waiting for a northbound to clear into the siding, a southbound manifest with a CSX AC4400 rebuild on the point gets underway again. A Ferromex SD70ACe is the DPU of the northbound. That H2 ... (more)

After being held briefly for a westbound to move from main 2 to main 1 at the Richards Spur crossovers just around the curve in the distance, an eastbound accelerates into Detroit Lakes, MN on a c... (more)

On the morning of the first day of 2024, an eastbound Union Pacific manifest grinds up Arlington Hill in eastern Nebraska. This former Chicago & North Western line provides a shortcut that allows ... (more)

A lengthy westbound manifest passes the large grain elevators in downtown Schuyler, NE bathed in the beautiful evening light of a late December day. It was a nice way for me to end another year of... (more)

A westbound double stack train races along the UP's double track mainline across Nebraska a few miles east of Grand Island.