It's always fun to put the boys in the wagon and walk a few blocks to the tracks to see a train go by. Seeing how big my oldest is in the wagon reminds me that we need to make these memories whil... (more)

After showing up at around 0720, the crew of the Paynesville Sub wayfreight is anxious to start east and begin their workday in earnest. They've waited out a parade of eastbounds, culminating wit... (more)

The power for a ballast train is fueling up in Brooten at the start of their workday. Technically, the folks around here would say they're "putting on gas."

A lovely summer sunset glints off of the sides of an eastbound CP train that's accelerating out of Brooten after negotiating a slow order in town. I never tire of these long summer evenings and t... (more)

As the sun sets on another hazy summer evening, an eastbound oil train cruises across Minnesota between Brooten and Belgrade.

Two sets of EMD power wait for their workday to begin as the sun breaks through some early morning clouds at Brooten. The 5937 is on a ballast train while the 6252 is on the wayfreight.

A well-worn SD40-2 waits on the siding in Brooten with a ballast train as an eastbound behind CP and NS power hustles through town. This appears to be almost directly across the tracks from where... (more)

An SD40-2 and repainted SD60 roll off of the siding at Brooten as a track gang readies their equipment for a day of tie replacement work west of town. The two EMDs will handle ballast train duty.

It's another beautiful spring day in Minnesota as a westbound one unit wonder slogs its way toward Glenwood. Nine days earlier in April last year, this is what this location looked like: Railroad: Canadian Pacific Railway
Locomotive: GE AC4400CW
Location: Brooten, Minnesota, USA
Locomotive #: CP 8645
Train ID: CP 499
Photo Date: April 18, 2013

A track gang set up shop in Brooten several weeks ago in anticipation of warmer weather and the chance to start a tie replacement project. They've busied themselves with placing new ties along th... (more)

The old is leading the new as a GP20C-ECO trails on the wayfreight east of Brooten.

A westbound comes through Brooten as the sun gets to work dissipating the fog that formed overnight and left a thick coating of frost on the trees. The third unit is one of the railroad's newer G... (more)

The sparks and smoke are flying as the south rail of this curve is ground back to the proper profile. I've seen these machines parked in various places or in transit, but it's something else to s... (more)

One of Loram's impressive rail grinding machines makes its way into Brooten, working westbound on Canadian Pacific tracks.

The wayfreight hustles to Brooten through thick fog, passing a frost covered tree along the way.