SD40-2s leading road trains have pretty much become a thing of the past. But, on occasion, it does happen, here, a freshly repainted SD40-2 leads an ex-ATSF warbonnet to Northtown in Minneapolis.

Just minutes after sunrise, a westbound fertilizer train(?) rounds the curve out of Big Lake.

The MILW 261 on the old Milwaukee Road for a fall excursion, looking every bit of classic Hiawatha as the train passes through the town of Cologne.

A surprise on an intermodal, a pair of SD60Ms transfer a train of stacked containers from St. Paul to Staples to receive newer road power for the rest of the trip.

A rerouted Superior-Northtown Manifest sports an all green powerset of two SD60Ms and an SD40-2. As is evident, all units were pulling hard.

The arguable favorite of BNSF's schemes runs light power from St. Cloud to BNSF's Northtown Yard in Minneapolis

A nice surprise on a fertilizer(?) train was this post-merger Executive schemed SD70MAC on the point.

A load of sub-bituminous coal finishes the last few miles of its journey as it heads for the power plant in Becker, MN.

St. Cloud's local to Northtown sports a decently clean BN leader as it races east to Minneapolis.

Ex-MILW,SOO, GMTX Smurf leads the St. Cloud roadswitch into Becker with coal loads and boxcar empties for the industries in town.

A BNSF ACe leads a BNSF GE and a BNSF H1 GP38-2 west on a manifest.

A CSX SD40-3 leads a pair of CSX GEs on a fertilizer train headed east.

MNTX (BN) SD9 #6234 with the "Pumpkin Express" after switching cars for the weekend.

Milwaukee Road 261 returns home from Boyleston on a daytime round trip under the Highway 23 overpass in Brook Park. Also on the train as a helper is AMTK #184, the phase 4 heritage unit. AMTK #... (more)

This could easily be the 1960s! But it's in fact 2015, where freshly restored 3617 is starred in "Railfan Weekend" (featuring SD45s around the state). Here a classic car (which happened to be pass... (more)