UP coal loads are cresting the hill at Oxford but the horses are more interested in the guy with the camera.

A BNSF coal train rolls south along the Mississippi River near Ilasco, Missouri on glorious October afternoon.

Crossing the river from Iowa into Missouri on the BN K-Line, a pair of Oakways lead the way in the pre-MAC days for coal train power assignments.

Loads passing Empties on a great fall day.

As severe storms move across Northwestern Minnesota, I was able to get some lightning action while staying dry. The storms were moving SW-NE and brought some very strong winds. It took many atte... (more)

C&IM SD18s 60 and 61, SD9 54 and SD38-2 71 drag the first half of a northbound hopper train up Petersburg Hill. The green power and forty-five loads are seen from the GM&O "Jax" Line overhead bri... (more)

After sunset UP runs past the old MStL yard.

As the sun sets over coal loads in the Cass Lake Yard, the low sun angle and clean locomotives make for a brilliant glint shot. This would be the last train of the day photographed on an epic adv... (more)

I like the seed corn, as i can shoot over it.

Coal loads are tied down in the Cass Lake Yard, next to a BNSF work train with CP GEVO's.

While bass fishing in the swampy area between Cass Lake and Pike Bay I heard a rumble and sure enough a coal train passed through. I got clouded out for the lead unit I was able to shoot the DPU ... (more)

The BNSF 8907 waits on their empties as the BNSF 9353 has just pulled in the yard and tied down. The M-GFDSUP will be arrive shortly and passing on the main.

The very last axle of the train is rolling over the MP93 defect detector as the train slows for a joint authority between MP93 and MP95. (For the guy that always asks what the leaders were on DPU... (more)

I have to admit that when I first laid eyes on the Utah Railway’s six MK5000s I was unimpressed. I mean, that cab just spells ugly with a capitol “U,” and that Caterpillar engine? It sound... (more)

A DPU SD70MAC brings up the rear of an Eastbound Coal Loads on its way to Superior.