A couple of eastern visitors stare down the resident local CP power in Canadian Pacific's Thief River Falls yard.

Minnesota Northern's weekly train on the Warroad subdivision exercises its trackage rights on the Canadian Pacific Detroit Lakes subdivision. Here the train passes over the Red Lake River in down... (more)

Independent Locomotive Service rolled out a new locomotive from the Holt shops, a former BNSF SD40-2, renumbered ILSX 1330. Its first order of business was to sort out the St. Hilaire portion of ... (more)

Northern Plains Railroad's Thief River Falls turn eases south in the Canadian Pacific yard switching Strata Corporation hoppers in front of the Farmer's Co-Op Grain & Seed elevator. The elevator ... (more)

The Canadian Pacific track evaluation train spends an afternoon as well as the upcoming night in Thief River Falls before heading northbound on the Noyes subdivision the morning of June 14th.

Minnesota Northern GP9 #1383 leads two ILSX SD40-2s numbered 1339 & 1340 with the weekly Warroad Local north of Thief River Falls at Dakota Junction.

The Detroit Lakes subdivision wayfreight gets underway through Thief River Falls crossing Nora St. with a single ballast hopper and two grain hoppers.

Ready and waiting...the Trail Turn bound for the Strata Corporation pit in Trail, Minnesota requires a crew and the Detroit Lakes Sub clear of train #291, both of which occurred within 15 minutes ... (more)

A well-timed gap in the dark cloud-cover provides some nice light on two grounded trains in Canadian Pacific's Thief River Falls yard. With the Canadian Pacific's employee strike north of the bor... (more)

"Oh yeah...this thing sure is goin' pretty slow, then..." In one of the most painfully slow switch maneuvers, CP 9606 backs through the 3rd St. grade crossing past the historic Soo Line depot at a... (more)

Monster Minnesota Northern train.....with six locomotives. The Warroad local makes one last connection at the Farmers Co-Op Grain & Seed elevator before rolling down the Detroit Lakes subdivision... (more)

100% SOO Line. Although it is not the premier passenger train The Winnipeger, the Thief River Falls - Glenwood wayfreight gets underway passing Edmund Pennington's Minneapolis, St. Paul &... (more)

The new Minnesota Northern schedule allows for the power to lay over in either Thief River Falls or Roseau. In total, four locomotives are calling the former GN/BN wye their new resting place, an... (more)

The local Farmers Cooperative elevator switcher gets called to load five hoppers brought in fresh off of the Minnesota Northern Warroad Local. This SW7 let its voice be heard as it blared its one... (more)

The Minnesota Northern Warroad Local arrives into Thief River Falls with ILSX 1340 on the back end of the train with the job of holding the EOT device. This week's switching job will be extra bus... (more)