With 98 loads in hand this loaded ethanol train has just put in a good workout to get up the 1.4% grade into Calmar. This B-36 local crew has this 650-746 loaded ethanol train rolling east towards... (more)

Passing the ex MILW Depot after cresting Calmar Hill.

After setting out cars it's back to track speed.

Flying up hill with a short train.

Passing a MILW Depot the arch is over line that went to Austin,MN and was the original line to St Paul,MN before the River Sub was in.

The DM&E Plow extra is stopped at Calmar to check over the plow and get a bite to eat. This crew is working on the Mason City Sub today between Mason City and Marquette to flange and widen drifts.... (more)

Last winters snow and wind was an everyday chore till it got above 32 and crusted over. The ICE ( DME ) ran a Russell plow to nock back the drifts and keep them from getting to big.

Digging hard at about 8MPH on a 1.8% Calmar Hill, It gets lit well in the Summer AM

After getting some paperwork at the depot at Calmar, this coal extra is back on the move. Smoke pours out of these 40's as they work on getting this 98 car coal train back up to speed before start... (more)

Is there an engine in there?

Capturing the moment - the beauty of winter!

M-MCDQ heads towards a meet at the Ossian Siding as it passes by the transload site for windmill parts at the Bruening Siding.

A KCS "Bullet Train" with 1 AC4400CW and 2 SD40-2s lug 69 loads up the Calmar Hill and barely make it.

DME 6367 (City of New Ulm), ICE 223, GECX 2869, GECX 2878, ICE 6454, ICE 6434, ICE 6404, ICE 6419, ICE 6408, ICE 6409.

Empty Grain Train from Kansas City, MO - Mason City, IA.