Monday's POED travels Guilford's District Three behind three NS Dash 9s and a GP40-2. The L.P. Athol Corporation's old mill building makes a nice backdrop as the train slides downhill in dynamics... (more)

Downeaster 682 highballs from Dover on time at 0951, being shoved by P42DC 162. This shot cost me a pretty funny-looking (I'm sure) fall in the shoreline mud.

The daily Willmar-Northtown rolls off the Wayzata Sub. at Harrison Street at 0937. Power is SD40-2 7847 (ex-BN, nee-BN/C&S, blt. Summer '78), SD40-2 6947 (ex-ATSF 5202, blt. 10/78), and SD9! 6184... (more)

Two SD38-2s, 210 and 213, (built 3/75), and SD-M 316 (ex-SD18 186, built 4/60) pull hard on limestone loads bound for Minorca at 1527, just as the sun FINALLY popped out on the engines and the fal... (more)

BNSF GP39-2 2728 (ex-BN 2728, built Spring 1981) awaits assignment in Willmar, an absolute haven for EMD fans.

Pacing anyone? The morning southbound CN 'run-through' freight enters the Missabe's great section of railroad that parallels Rte. 7 for most of 18 miles. An awesome place for EMD fans, and NOT b... (more)

CWL44-9 (EF-644a) 2508, SD50F (GF-636b) 5454, and SD40-2(W) (GF-30t) 5352 keep a southbound 'run-through' moving at track speed along Rte. 7 just north of Burnett at 0848.

Minntac stone empties arrive in Proctor at 1351. If they can't be mid-train on a lumber drag on Tehachapi, the next best place for these beautiful tunnel motors and their 645s is hauling taconite... (more)

After waiting for the Marshall local out of Willmar to clear up, grain empties get moving north again along the cornfields in the absolute last light of the day.

SD38AC 202 (blt. 6/71) and 'SD40-3' 405 (ex-SP SD45T-2 6767, 9500, nee-SSW 9163, blt. 7/72) pull the MRF north out of Proctor. The limestone loads visible in the background will be radio blocking... (more)

Due to many tunnel motors in the shops for electrical issues, SD-M 316 (ex-SD18 186, built 4/60) found itself on the point of Fairlane loads bound for the lake. Shown struggling in the 8th notch ... (more)

SD38-2 209 (blt. 3/75), SD38AC 203 (blt. 6/71), and 'SD40-3' 410 (ex-HATX SD45T-2 930, nee-SP 6771, 9200, blt. 3/72) lean limestone loads through the curve swinging them westward again along Rte. ... (more)

SD38AC 202 (built 6/71) and 'SD40-3' 405 (ex-SP SD45T-2 6767, 9500, nee-SSW 9163, built 7/72) lead the MRF through Grand Lakes along Saginaw Road, while limestone loads 'radio block' right on thei... (more)

Due to many tunnel motors in the shops for electrical issues, SD-M 316 found itself on the point of 138 loads out of Fairlane bound for the lake. My first experience of pacing a 567 at speed on a... (more)

Seemingly in a nonstop trek up and down Proctor Hill, the week's Hill Job power yanks yet another set of empties off of Dock 6 and starts the climb toward Proctor. The throaty roar of 3 non-turbo... (more)