Crew members prepare the former Canadian Pacific GP9u and a nicer-looking repainted counterpart to move a work train toward Oslo and dump rock along the line to prepare it for the flooding of the ... (more)

The Red River of the North is once again close to swallowing up the former Soo Line bridge at Oslo as a grain train rolls eastward behind the Northern Plains Railroad's quartet of SD40-2s. The tra... (more)

Grain empties for Arvilla, ND, roll westward for the 20 mile trip out of Grand Forks as a stalwart Heritage II Dash 9 shoves on the rear.

Surprised they put the older Dash 9 ahead of the GEVO. A long manifest freight struggles to get up to track speed as it rumbles southward past the Merrifield elevator.

After a quick station stop on the west side of Grand Forks, a 13+ hour late Empire Builder accelerates southward out of Grand Forks with a Heritage I Dash 9 in the lead.

An unusual mix of GE power cruises eastward through the hills west of Larimore with a thirteen hour late Empire Builder. The train was delayed due to a locomotive derailment near East Glaci... (more)

A high priority manifest heading from Pasco, WA, to Northtown Yard rolls into Fargo on the Prosper line to do some work at the yard before continuing. The graffiti visible on the pillar in front o... (more)

Grain empties for Erskine, MN, fly around the curve entering Fisher behind a Dash 9 and a 75M.

An empty grain train heading from North Saint Louis, MO, to Drayton, ND, eases into Ardoch. After a quick stop at the diamond, it will proceed northward to its final destination.

A pair of consecutively numbered, but no longer matching, geeps rolls northward toward the Northern Plains Railroad with the weekly grain train for Langdon, ND.

After the sun finally burns through the morning cloud cover, a pair of BN geeps rolls eastward on the return trip to Grand Forks with the twice weekly local to Mayville, ND.

Fertilizer loads heading from CSX at Chicago, IL, to CHS at Milton, ND, roll northward over the drainage ditch at milepost 97. They will wait for coal loads to clear off the passenger main before ... (more)

Heritage I leads Heritage II and classic BN schemes as a rather late Noyes to Dilworth manifest accelerates out of Grand Forks with a clear shot all the way to Fargo.

A very late freight from Grand Forks to Cass Lake is bathed in golden light as the pair of BN veterans pulls its way eastward at sunset.

Still wearing its original logos and sounding pretty good for its age, one of the many former BN GP39s rolls through East Grand Forks on its way to the sugar plant.