Nearly a week after it began its trip, Train 600, made up of windmill tower bases continue their restricted trip up the Detroit Lakes Sub. From here, it will be taken into Canada and handed off ... (more)

In idle now, the engineer on this empty Hartley ethanol train prepares the units for dynamics as they drop down hill into Lawer at 40mph. The DM&E and CP have done alot of work on this part of the... (more)

Empty Hartley, IA, ethanol train works west to New Hampton to meet #478. This crew went to work at 04:45 at Dubuque and will handle the train to Mason City, where a new crew will take the train ou... (more)

An empty Hartley, IA, #633 ethanol train passes an outbound #632 Lawler ethanol load waiting for traffic to clear up. There is a 13:30 Mason City crew that will taxi out to the train in the backgr... (more)

With CP storing or returning leased units, the Soo Line SD60's have been on the increase on the ex-IC&E lines. Here a trio SD60's came out of Chicago on this empty Hartley, IA, ethanol train. At M... (more)

With just shy of 10,000s of ethanol, these three EMD's were on their knees to keep train #636 rolling east over the DM&E. This is one of the good things the takeover actually resulted in...

Winter is here! Train #171 has been running on approach signals since it left Frontenac, but coming into Red Wing they finally receive some clear track so they put the hammer down. Was sure a nice... (more)

Quite the vibrant consist leads NS 34T through the crossovers west of Butler at CP 360. Once in town, the train will swing through the connection to the Huntington District in order to head towar... (more)

With a colorful motive power consist in charge, 34T rolls east towards Butler, Detroit and beyond.

Eastbound 34T crosses from two to one at CP 360 with a rare SOO SD60M leading the way.

Train 490, led by four EMDs of various backgrounds and paint schemes, does some switching in Glenwood before departing east for Minneapolis. The locomotive to the left is clearly a former BNSF SD... (more)

The warmest day of 2011 in Minnesota so far is brightened even further by the appearance of one of CP's former Soo Line SD60Ms leading a great lashup of power east out of Glenwood. Here they're a... (more)

When i got word of the 291 the night before, the SOO 6027 had been leading, so to wake up and find that it had been pulled off and the 6062 was now leading, it was quite surprising.

A quick nap trackside after work was disturbed when 299 rumbled across Grand Crossing (CP/BNSF diamond) westbound. With a SOO SD60 leading, the chase was on!

Soo 6062,6036 are at the east end of Humboldt Yard waiting to head east with a grain train.