With loaded BGSX gravel hoppers and grain hoppers in tow, the TRF turn waits for a crew to take it west toward Fordville on the Devils Lake subdivision. The locomotives include NPR 5556, 5561, 555... (more)

After exchanging CP and BGSX hoppers in the Thief River Falls yard, the 5558 leads the TRF turn west towards Viking, MN were 5558 & 5561 will be set out on the siding.

After fetching Strata Corporation hoppers at Nora St. from the Canadian Pacific, the NPR 5556 leads the turn across the bridge over the Red Lake River.

This locomotive has had quite the career in the last year, making appearances in Eveleth, MN working at Laurentian Aggregates and in Superior, WI for Murphy Oil. Now, in April it is only a few mi... (more)

Crew members prepare the former Canadian Pacific GP9u and a nicer-looking repainted counterpart to move a work train toward Oslo and dump rock along the line to prepare it for the flooding of the ... (more)

The Red River of the North is once again close to swallowing up the former Soo Line bridge at Oslo as a grain train rolls eastward behind the Northern Plains Railroad's quartet of SD40-2s. The tra... (more)

The Northern Plains SD40-2s can feel the cold bite of winter in northwestern Minnesota. Second in line 5556 and fourth 5558 are sending out a nice steady stream of plume, which from a distance ap... (more)

Quite a lashup on the western end of the Northern Plains Railroad. The rest of the consist includes from the west end: NPR 2285 former GT gp9, NPR 3511 former NW gp35, and last but not least NPR 2... (more)

Still making a living moving hoppers brought in by the CP and BNSF for the Sun Prairie Elevator. The CP mainline to Portal is in the foreground.

Once used to switch hoppers of ballast rock in northern Minnesota, this ugly duck of a locomotive now calls Superior, Wisconsin home as it's primary job is to be around the Murphy Oil facility.

Fresh From the Paint Booth! NPR 5558 shows off its new royal blue and yellow paint scheme. This locomotive hasn't even touched its home rails which lie two miles to the north at Dakota Juntion, ... (more)

Northern Plains Railroad high nose GP9 former Kansas Southwestern and a Grand Trunk unit is parked at Bowbells Sun Prairie terminal. You never know what your going to come across on old highway 52... (more)

Former Soo 410 has been used for parts for a number of years since the unit's electrical system was destroyed by vandals while the unit was parked in Viking, MN.

Three Northern Plains locomotives head through Thief River Falls to pick up a string of hoppers filled with sand and gravel from the Strata Corporation in Trail, MN sitting only several yards in f... (more)