Rolling into Humboldt Yard.

Just before Christmas 2016, OTVR ran a special "Santa Train" over its route. Behind the scenes, Santa rode in a warm pickup to the outskirts of each town and then would hop on to ride t... (more)

MILW 32A wastes no time getting back to the Twin Cities as they fly through the small community of Plato.

MILW 32A leads the Gourmet Express back towards the Twin Cities as they pass the Milwaukee Road depot at Glencoe.

MILW 261 slowly rolls into Glencoe as they pass the former Milwaukee Road depot in town.

The rain holds off and fall colors pop in the sun as MILW 261 leads the Gourmet Express through Cologne.

Rain pours down on Augusta as MILW 261 hauls an excursion west past the farmlands of Augusta.

UP 1947 leads a trio of SD40N's south over the Mississippi River. The 1913 built CGW lift bridge is still holding strong to this day but is scheduled to be replaced.

MNNR 87 sits at St. Anthony waiting for a transfer to clear before they can get back to Commercial Yard. The B39-8E duo are both former LMX leasers.

MNNR 75 smokes it up as it works a cut of cars at Commercial Yard in Saint Paul.

Having made the slow trek west to the far end of the Minnesota Prairie Line, RRVW 2005 and TCWR 2300 are underway eastbound again with a string of coal cars that need to be moved from storage.

A pair of light engines aren't holding up much traffic in downtown Wood Lake as they make their way west to retrieve some cars from storage. The cars they're tasked with picking up are coal hopper... (more)

A pair of locomotives head west to retrieve some coal cars from storage at the far end of the Minnesota Prairie Line, seen passing the new grain elevator that was constructed in Echo just a couple... (more)

Four locomotives work to bring a southbound BNSF train through the small town of Russell, MN. Unfortunately, just over a year later, the old grain elevators here would be damaged by fire.

An eastbound RCPE train passes through Lake Benton as it makes its way through the hills of the Buffalo Ridge on this former Chicago & North Western line in western Minnesota.