Powder River Basin coal just arrives at the Dairyland Power Cooperative in Alma, Wisconsin on this snowy winter day. The DPU will shortly be cut off as the full coal cars make their way around the... (more)

Looking down on the distributed power unit from this Powder River Basin coal train as it enters the Dairyland Power Cooperation power plant in Alma, Wisconsin. The DPU will shortly be cut off as t... (more)

BN 6244 tries to stay ahead of a spring thunder storm as it hurries an eastbound freight along the Mississippi River at Alma, WI. The train was a daily freight operating between Dayton Bluff Yard,... (more)

Still in Santa Fe red and silver, BNSF 791 charges through the snow and up the Mississippi River towards Northtown Yard in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Here the train can be seen kicking up snow on the... (more)

Empty oil cans race up the Mississippi River Valley before dawn on BNSF rails.

Elephant style warbonnets lead a stack train through Alma early in the morning.

An eastbound stack train races past Mississippi River Lock and Dam #4 and the scenic river town of Alma, WI.

The sun is up in Minnesota, but Alma, WI is still in the shadows as a BNSF intermodal train races up the Mississippi River.

The two IC engines went north on the 23rd on the H-GALNTW during an early spring snowstorm. It didn't take much to convince me to take a few hours off of work the next day to head north on the St... (more)

From back when BN SD40-2s with GE boosters ruled the rails, another eastbound stack train traces the shore of the Mississippi River on the way to Chicago. Meanwhile, a downbound tug and barges loc... (more)

This GP60 and a GE unit creep through Alma because of slower traffic up ahead.

Looking more like a lash-up out of the 90's, NS 7149 and 8833 lead H-NSINTW out of Alma on an amazing Saturday afternoon.

A lone CSX leader heads up this empty fertilizer train through Alma, WI. Solid CSX consists are common on the unit fertilzer trains to and from Breckenridge, MN, although I've typically seen thes... (more)

The sky breaks for a couple of hours before another wave of snow hits during one of the worst blizzards of the year for the upper midwest. The sun shines over the BNSF local that is out of La Cros... (more)

The parade of eastbound traffic continues as merchandise from Pasco, WA comes into town behind a warbonnet.