Sixteen days from Christmas, the ground is still bare as the Mayville Local cruises eastward behind a pair of whiteface geeps.

With Cascade Green on the point, the daily BNSF Hillsboro Local heads west out of Grand Forks North Dakota.

The Northtown to Noyes manifest rolls into Grand Forks with a special treat second out. Numerous Ferromex GEs have recently found their way into this area, but the lighting prior to this has never... (more)

A colorful consist of a GEVO, a 60M, and a geep drags a long Noyes to Dilworth manifest out of town.

Ominous clouds that would eventually bring the region's first snow flurries move in as a train I previously caught in Fisher, MN, makes a reappearance, but this time with the DPU facing into the l... (more)

After a brief stop at Powell, the Mayville Local trundles up to D.L. Switch to head into the yard. The trailing unit was apparently suffering from mechanical problems and was dead in tow.

Right behind the City Job is the Mill Job, pulling up to the Neche Switch to head up the spur to the mill.

Due to a derailment of two covered hoppers at the east end of the yard, the City and Mill Jobs had to back out of the west end of the yard and run the passenger main around it. Here, the City Job ... (more)

It's definitely looking (and feeling) like winter as a whiteface BN geep accelerates out of town at sunrise.

A colorful grain train rolls around the east leg of the wye and into Grand Forks.

Purchased by the Frisco in 1975, who would have thought that today this MP15 would have it's red and white paint traded in for orange and black? 36 years later, SLSF 364, now BNSF 3703, works the ... (more)

The third of three grain trains leaves Grand Forks and accelerates down the Hillsboro line on its way from Crookston, MN, to Tacoma, WA.

A battered Dash 9 leads grain loads from Arvilla around the west leg of the wye past the Amtrak station as I get a friendly wave from the cab.

Right at sunrise, the Devils Lake local rolls out of Grand Forks to begin its work out west. This is currently the only freight operation west of Larimore due to the high water west of Devils Lake... (more)

Once in the top tier of the Superfleet, former ATSF 243 has definitely seen better days. It, along with a 75I counterpart and a catfish, is leading grain empties from the Belt Railway of Chicago u... (more)