Former Great Northern Snow Dozer X-7629, built in the GN's St. Cloud (MN) shops in the 1960s, heads south on the former GN line between St. Paul and the Twin Ports. The crew will tie up for the n... (more)

St. Paul was blessed with twelve inches of snow on February 20-21 (and this on top of the snow that's fallen since November, which hasn't melted yet). Understandably, the Minnesota Transportation... (more)

"Friends of the 457" recently completed a ten-year cosmetic restoration of this Minneapolis & St. Louis 2-8-0, which included an overhead shelter, recorded sounds, steam effects, and working light... (more)

UP 4342 rolls south on the Spine Line towards Mason City, running parallel to the now out-of-service IC&E tracks (ex-Milwaukee Road I&M Sub).

Iowa Traction 54 crosses South Eisenhower Ave heading for Clear Lake Junction.

Iowa Traction 60 pulls a cut of three tank cars out of the REG spur while sister 54 sits nearby. IATR 54 is a 50-ton steeplecab that was built by Baldwin-Westinghouse in May 1923 as Southern Iowa ... (more)

This Bud's for You! IATR 54 rolls past the Budweiser distributor in Mason City as it heads for the shop at Emery. Anheuser-Busch introduced its signature Bohemian lager in 1876, just twenty years... (more)

Iowa Traction 50 shoves four hoppers back to the CP interchange track near Clear Lake Junction. The railroad dates back to 1896, when it was founded as the Mason City & Clear Lake Railway.

Iowa Traction 50 pulls a cut of cars across 15th Street in Mason City on America's last all-electric interurban freight railroad. How rare is it? No. 50 is nearing its 100th birthday; it was bu... (more)

When a boulder rolled onto the tracks near Keystone just before the 2005 photographer's weekend, the Nevada Northern dispatched this train with SD9 204 and a crane to dislodge it. Here's the extr... (more)

The Reading and Virginian heritage units lead a train through St. Paul on a cool fall afternoon in the Twin Cities.

Detroit & Lima Northern 7 steams through Walnut Grove as it makes a circle trip around Greenfield Village.

Detroit & Lima Northern 7 hardly makes any smoke (it's a very efficient locomotive), so most shots of it look static - like it's standing still. I asked the fireman if he could produce "just a li... (more)

After six years of painstaking restoration, Detroit & Lima Northern 7 has entered service at The Henry Ford. Here it is backing away from the Greenfield Village roundhouse, ready to start the day... (more)

October 1941 saw the release of Disney's "Dumbo," the last day of carving on Mount Rushmore, and the almost daily escalation of World War II overseas by the German Reich. It was also the month th... (more)