A pair of SD40-2's start out eastbound from the Thief River Falls yard led by Iowa, Chicago & Eastern 6401 with one car in tow past the classic SOO Line Depot in downtown Thief River Falls. The t... (more)

After waiting at the Hoffman signal tower for a Canadian Pacific switch job to shove back into the St. Paul yard, the eastbound Empire Builder crosses over and proceeds towards the CP River... (more)

The Empire Builder cruises through the Traill County seat of Hillsboro, a Great Northern Railway community half-way between Grand Forks and Fargo named honoring the Empire Builder himself, ... (more)

The Empire Builder arrives into the Grand Forks station past the "West Grand Forks" station sign 11 hours, 41 minutes late greeted by passengers exclaiming their relief! The train original... (more)

The Empire Builder crosses over Fresh Water Coulee slightly over six and a half miles from the Grand Forks Amtrak station over 11 hours late.

SOO in SOO Territory SOO 6044 and CP 6251 under the train code CP 486 hustle through down the Detroit Lakes subdivision disturbing the quiet community of Brooks, roughly 22 miles from its o... (more)

SOO in SOO Territory After a couple hours shuffling cars in the yard, SOO 6044 and CP 6251 finally depart "TR Falls" at 1600 and start the trek down the Detroit Lakes subdivision to Glenwoo... (more)

CP 6238 & 6241 detached from the train it took from the US/Canadian border at Noyes and started performing yard switching duties, coming through the south end of the yard nearing Farmers Grain & S... (more)

CP 8846, looking like it has had to bear the majority of the snow at least between Winnipeg to Thief River Falls, and one of the last Delaware & Hudson repainted locomotives 7312, perform some yar... (more)

Regarded as the worst blizzard of the 2013-2014 winter season, winds gust whipping newly accumulated snow around the Thief River Falls area. Amongst the storm, Canadian Pacific trains still trave... (more)

Canadian Pacific 5935 and Soo Line 6035 lead the westbound train 299 through Karlstad, Minnesota before the snow flies bound for the border crossing at Noyes, just 45 miles away. In a time when G... (more)

Far from Central Georgia... It isn't too late in the afternoon, around 1545 perhaps, and already the light indicates it's near sunset creating some low lighting conditions on Canadian Pacif... (more)

Far from Central Georgia... Canadian Pacific 8778 and Norfolk Southern 8101 "Central of Georgia" lead the eastbound unit crude oil train CP 602 out of the Thief River Falls over the frozen ... (more)

CP 490's engineer uses this meet opportunity with CP 299 to get out and stretch his legs, possibly to see if all the hype regarding the extreme cold is really all its made out to be. As 299 takes... (more)

It's -22 degrees Fahrenheit and train 490 with modern GE power passes the not-so modern Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie depot that once held the company's Winnipeg Division headquarters. ... (more)