A coal empty is flying at track speed around the big cut as they head into the Red River Valley. More info at OutstateMinnesota... (more)

One week after this photo was taken, the area would once again be blanketed with over a foot of snow. More info at OutstateMinn... (more)

A priority intermodel train blasts through the quite town of Frazee. Though the sun has just risen this town is already awake and ready for work. Farmers never take a day off, especially a Satur... (more)

Hard to believe two weeks ago, two EMDX/Oakway SD60's were pulling the same train, but were pushing through 30 inches of fresh snow! Today, the sun burned off the fog and the temperature flew up ... (more)

Hard to believe two weeks ago, two EMDX/Oakway SD60's were pulling the same train, but were pushing through 30 inches of fresh snow! Today, the sun burned off the fog and the temperature flew up ... (more)

27 inches and counting! Single day total for Sunday were over 29 inches in Cass Lake. Simply amazing. More info at OutstateMi... (more)

The snow continued to fall as the train was stopping for a crew change. Even the Sheriff's Department in the background parked all their squad cars and pulled out every pick up and SUV they had! ... (more)

The day after 29 inches of snow fell, the railroad is still busy clearing switches and getting things back to normal! More info... (more)

The Minot to Superior Manifest is crawling at 19MPH and the crew was very clear to the dispatcher that this was the fastest they could go because they couldn't see where they were going as the nor... (more)

A former BN SD40-2 leads a manifest north (rr east) out of Northtown Yard. The Minneapolis skyline is highlighted by the remaining rays of sun on one of the nicests days in months in Minnesota. ... (more)

The sun has just cleared the horizon and burned through some light clouds, as long shadows are cast as can be seen by the crossbuck stretching far in front of the plow on the BNSF 6033.

The Cass Lake yard is full of coal! With a cool morning temperature right at zero, and a windchill at -15, strong high pressure clears the sky and lets the sun shine through! Railroad: BNSF Railway
Locomotive: GE ES44AC
Location: Cass Lake, Minnesota, USA
Locomotive #: BNSF 6033
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: March 10, 2008

Running right through possibly the most interesting railroad configuration in Minnesota, this stack train rolls east in Saint Paul. The pair of tracks the train is on curve off to the west and m... (more)

The pigeons were scared after the crew gave the railfans on the bridge a salute. The pigeon on the left nearly flew straight into me, and the one on the right fired and nearly hit me with his whi... (more)

In a scene that is played out time after time on the busy Staples Sub in Western Minnesota, a BNSF coal empty rolls west as the pipeline of coal continues to flow east. The second and third units... (more)