The giant DMIR 227 Yellowstone and the original EF1 electric MILW 10200 stand in the afternoon sun under the trainshed in Duluth, but it's trains of the wooden variety that have my children's atte... (more)

In the last minutes of light on a gorgeous spring evening, empties climb the hill to Proctor. On a weekend family getaway to Duluth, railfanning was on the backburner, but these few minutes witnes... (more)

Our wait on the overpass in Staples was nearly ruined by a cloud, but the sun came out just in time to give us a good look at the train of the day.

I headed east hoping to see the SOO 6024 west, but that train was held at South Haven for two trains and wouldn't get out my way until dusk. A nice reflection of two GEVOs on one of my favorite br... (more)

The first of several SD70ACe's I would catch on this afternoon, the 8435 rolls downgrade as a DPU on westbound coal empties at Lake Park. Puffy clouds like these always make for interesting shoot... (more)

Five units sweep around one of the curves between Lake Park and Hawley on a gorgeous spring evening.

Breckenridge, MN and Wahpeton, ND can be seen in the distance as RRVW's Hankinson turn heads south on the BNSF. To call this portion of Minnesota flat is an understatement.

An alternative view of the curves at Lake Park shows the wide open spaces of this area. A westbound intermodal train heads toward Dilworth as clouds continue to roll overhead.

Two tier 4 demonstrators sit on the servicing tracks in Willmar after bringing a train in off of the Morris Sub earlier in the day.

If you're going to see nothing but dirty and crusty GEs, you might as well see five of them on one train. Westbound train 293 crosses the bridge east of Hoffman on a very windy March afternoon.

Five GEs rush past an old Soo Line crane and CP caboose ("van" I suppose is the proper term for the CP) sitting on the elevator track in Farwell.

A westbound drops down the long ramp between Wendell and Nashua that will bring it into the Bois de Sioux River valley. In just a few more miles it will cross the BNSF's former Great Northern lin... (more)

Shrouded in fog at sunrise, a westbound intermodal train rolls by a small lake on the state land west of Sedan, MN.

The snow is done falling and the sun has come out, so with a couple of westbounds showing on ATCS, I trudged out of the office and headed for home via the tracks. I had no clue what was coming, a... (more)

The mail and the railroad: two things that keep moving no matter what the weather. A westbound CP train heads through town on a windy and snowy day and past a local's mailbox.