If you need some solitude, it's hard to beat the big bridge over Lake Ashtabula near Luverne, North Dakota. After leaving I-94 at Valley City, you travel north for over 30 miles, the last 10 or s... (more)

A spiderweb for you on Halloween, although this shot was taken in June a few years ago: fog is lifting and condensation covers everything, including a spider's handiwork as a westbound BNSF interm... (more)

As the rising sun burns off some fog in the Sheyenne River valley and condensation clings to prairie grass and hundreds of spiderwebs, a westbound BNSF tank train steps onto the large bridge just ... (more)

A westbound manifest soars over the Sheyenne River valley west of Luverne, ND.

Minutes after Jeremiah Rindahl captured his stunning photo of Amtrak's detouring Empire Builder at this location, the sun is breaking the horizon and the fog is beginning to dissipate over Lake As... (more)

As the moon brings light to the very early morning over Lake Ashtabula, a long westbound BNSF Railway intermodal bangs across a 100 year old trestle built by the Great Northern Railway in 1912. W... (more)

Due to a combination of a harsh winter, booming oil industry, and aggressive trackwork, Amtrak's Prized train, the Empire Builder detours over the KO Sub. While the eastbound train 8 still uses i... (more)

The sun is beginning to set on a beautiful winter day in North Dakota as an eastbound oil train crosses high over Lake Ashtabula near Luverne.

After enduring a long afternoon of waiting, the railroad had finally come to life in the evening hours, giving me some good shots of the bridge at Luverne. The only thing keeping me standing amon... (more)

With the sun set, the wind died down, and Lake Ashtabula provided a nice reflection for one more westbound on the Luverne bridge.

The sun finally sank below the hillside on a long summer day, providing a nice silhouette of a tree and another eastbound oil train on the bridge at Luverne.

The sun finally crept over to the north side of the Luverne bridge as it neared the horizon. With a small window of opportunity before the bridge would be in shadow, my hopes sank as an eastbound... (more)

The Deadliest Catch guys sometime say "stick and stay and make it pay." That's what I did on Monday at Luverne. After waiting in the sun with seemingly every insect on the hillside trying to eat... (more)

Eastbound oil loads soar across Lake Ashtabula on the BNSF's ex-Great Northern Surrey Cutoff between Minot and Fargo.

A long hike along frozen Lake Ashtabula gives a good vista of an eastbound Z train crossing the impressive former Great Northern bridge west of Luverne.