A new GEVO has accumulated a little snow on its nose as it hustles east across Minnesota on a clear and cold February morning.

A few of my favorite trees look on as an eastbound Canadian Pacific train emerges from some thick fog just east of Brooten.

Eastbound CP 290 passes the Newfolden Co-Op elevator doing the track speed of 40 mph to its first crew change south of the Canadian border. As crazy as it seems I met the conductor of this train,... (more)

An eastbound CP train rounds a curve east of Brooten on a sunny fall morning.

The October 9, 2011 edition of the southbound CP 490, sits over a mile north of Mahnomen, MN, with speculation that a crew member reached the maximum hours on-duty, so in the meantime, the enginee... (more)

CP train southbound #290 is just north of the CHS Sunflower Processing Facility at Hazel featuring two Soo Line SD60's. Photo taken from Pennington County Road #3.

CP train #290 eases on the throttle while its counterpart train #291 meet in the city of Plummer of Minnesota (out of frame). #290 is headed by SOO 6028 & 6056, both SD60's, seen here passing one... (more)

Two GEs power eastbound train 290 around a curve between Sedan and Brooten. This location is referred to as "The Shoe" by CP crews, thanks to the (now closed) furniture store visible across the h... (more)

On a perfectly clear morning, an eastbound Canadian Pacific train is seen rolling along between Brooten and Belgrade.

Four SD40-2s wait on the main at Dickinson with eastbound train 290 as the sun peeks through the clouds.

Having led a train north to Winnipeg two days earlier, this CSX GEVO and leased SD40-2 combo return to Glenwood with train 290, curving into the yard off of the Detroit Lakes Sub.

The setting sun glints off of the sides of two trains meeting at South Haven. Coming at you is a priority manifest train from Winnipeg, while its westbound counterpart waits on the siding.

The 290 heads south, eight miles from the yard in Thief River Falls seen here at Hazel, MN, the site of a large CHS sunflower processing facility in cooperation with Northwest Grain. To see the S... (more)

Two GE's create their own blizzard as they bring train 290 down a slight hill between Forada and Glenwood.

Like the saying goes, "what goes around....usually gets turned around in Winnipeg and set back south." As is the case with these SOO units. They brought the 491 north on Sunday, and are now makin... (more)