To remove the berm of snow between the double mains along the eastern end of the Ravenna Sub, BNSF utilized this Jordan ditcher to push the berm onto the other track where the rotary plow blew it ... (more)

To remove the berm of snow between the double mains along the eastern end of the Ravenna Sub, BNSF utilized this Jordan ditcher to push the berm onto the other track where the rotary plow blew it ... (more)

D&I plow extra on the rarely used Beresford Branch. This is an ex-Milwaukee Road plow operating on former C&NW track.

D&I is providing storage for a unit train set of coal hoppers on its new passing siding at Chatsworth. During the Christmas 2009 snowstorm that dumped up to 20 inches these cars provided a wind b... (more)

The loading of BNSF shuttle grain trains at Beresford, SD, on the D&I was once common but now happens just a few times a year. Here one is just arriving North Sioux City where it will be interc... (more)

This chase of an IC&E Russell Plow on the Jackson Sub was every bit as good as the symbol assigned to it - WOW-29, short for Work train OWatonna Sub. This train began on the Owatonna sub out of Ma... (more)

To facilitate a meet at Hawarden, this empty stone train has pulled up the former C&NW branch to Beresford, SD, to clear of the main line so that the ethanol local can head for Sioux City. The tr... (more)

Dakota & Iowa's Ethanol local has just got underway from Hawarden to Sioux City behind the road's pair of former Kennecott Copper GP39-2s.

As the sun sets rapidly, a northbound UP freight is just getting underway after meeting a loaded grain train at the 10,800 foot long passing siding at Carnes, Iowa.

The first day of December 2009 find BNSF's Madison Local east of its namesake town and on its return trip to Sioux Falls.

A BNSF Willmar to Sioux City train passes the old grain elevator at Struble, Iowa.

A westbound UP auto rack train races west along U.S. Highway 30 at sunrise.

The truck side frame of Nebraska Nentral SD45 5332 leaves no doubt as to who built this locomotive for the Rio Grande back in 1968.

Nebraska Central's pair of former Union Pacific SD40-2s struggle to bring 35 loads of ethanol out of the Middle Loup River valley south of St Paul. The ethanol was produced at a plant near Ord an... (more)

Nebraska Central's pair of former Union Pacific SD40-2s bring 35 loads of ethanol through St Libory on a fine late fall afternoon. The ethanol was produced at a plant near Ord and is destined for... (more)