A pair of SD70MAC's bring a coal empty down towards the Minnesota River valley.

3 Geeps sit adjacent to the sand tower at Willmar.

A GP38-2 still in Soo Line colors sits in the Canadian Pacific yard in New Ulm on a nice spring afternoon.

A pair of four axle locomotives rest from their duties on the servicing tracks in Willmar, MN.

A southbound BNSF grain train behind a single Dash 9 in H3 paint curves through the Buffalo Ridge in southwestern Minnesota.

A westbound Canadian Pacific train with Norfolk Southern power on the point busts through a plow ridge at one of the crossings in the small town of Walnut Grove, MN.

An eastbound train crosses the Minnesota River at Morton on the former Minneapolis & St Louis Railway. The river had been swelling due to the spring snowmelt, but a blast of cold air on this April... (more)

BLE 906 leads a loaded ore train out of Fairlane down the Missabe Sub.

An eastbound manifest train on the Wayzata Sub between Montrose and Delano.

3 GE's pull hard on grain train at East Delano MN.

A lone GP40X sits in the yard at Willmar MN.

A westbound Twin Cities & Western train behind two Caterpillar powered locomotives hustles through the small town of Bird Island, MN on the former Milwaukee Road west of Minneapolis.

On a beautiful summer morning, the Twin Cities & Western is moving some grain loads east on the former Minneapolis & St Louis Railway behind a single locomotive, seen crossing the Redwood River at... (more)

That low winter light looks good plastered on the side of this all EMD power set and ore cars complete with a little bit of steam rising as the cold air mingles with the fresh taconite pellets.

Its minus 34 degrees at daybreak and BLE 900 pops out of the shadows at N. Fairlane with U711 in tow for Proctor.