Foreign power is definitely more common along here than it used to be, mostly thanks to oil trains like this one. Here, a standard cab Dash 9 and relatively new SD70ACe from Norfolk Southern hust... (more)

A lengthy stack train rolls out of Belgrade. After going on duty at 0730, they waited for 4 hours for traffic to clear at University, then took 1 1/2 hours to do their work at Shoreham, and when ... (more)

I think this is the first of the Olympic scheme units I've caught leading a train, seen rounding a curve just east of Brooten. The covered hoppers in the distance are on what remains of the Broot... (more)

A long train of empty crude oil tanks accelerates out of Belgrade on a frigid February morning. The 35 mph winds are blowing the exhaust across the train, causing some neat heat distortion. With... (more)

The conductor of a westbound empty oil train alights to perform a roll-by inspection as an eastbound slowly pulls toward a red signal at Murray East and the sun sinks toward the horizon on a pleas... (more)

A Golden Beaver shoves stacks east near Belgrade. There's not much snow for us this winter.

The fresh paint on a brand new Norfolk Southern SD70ACe gleams in the sun on a clear winter afternoon in western Minnesota. It's leading crude oil empties toward North Dakota on the Canadian Paci... (more)

The new CTC from Glenwood to Hoffman has been turned on. There are still a few kinks to work out, though, as a westbound empty oil train tries to depart Glenwood for the Elbow Lake Sub. They hav... (more)

A westbound is in the hole in the distance at Murray as the DPU of 198 helps a healthy train of stacks toward Minneapolis on a frigid February morning.

One of the newest GEVOs on the roster rushes east with the Vancouver to Chicago hotshot not long after sunrise at Belgrade. Dark clouds are on the horizon, but things would clear up again by the ... (more)

Some nice fluffy snow is falling and there's not a GE in sight at the roundhouse in Willmar.

The Watertown Local is well into the climb away from the Minnesota border as they cross South Dakota state highway 20 between Stockholm and South Shore. The terrain may look relatively flat out h... (more)

The wayfreight heads to Glenwood to finish up their day, passing by some covered hoppers in storage on the siding at Sedan. The trailing GP38-2 is a former Soo Line locomotive that still has its ... (more)

The sun breaks the horizon as a westbound train makes its way through a 10 mph slow order for a soft spot near MP 110, most likely right next to where I was standing as the tracks creaked and groa... (more)

The westbound Watertown Local rounds a curve between Bellingham and Nassau in far western Minnesota.