"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)

After laying over on the TRF wye over the new year's weekend, MNN 1380 & 1356 are back on duty heading north (1380 is leading) to Dakota Junction to meet the rest of the Warroad Local that just ar... (more)

Spray paint....cardboard....anything to make sure that this locomotive is "sold and do not remove parts." The former BNSF 6964 is now owned by one of the many branches of the Helm Financial Leasi... (more)

CP 9609 comes through downtown Thief River Falls over the Red Lake River in the process of making up an east-bound grain train with hoppers possibly off from the Northern Plains Railroad.

Two former CP, one former UP/SP, one former BN, and one in legit paint...just a typical line-up of Northern Plains Railway locomotives! The TRF turn runs light towards the CPR yard to retrieve it... (more)

In and amongst mostly cloudy weather, Christmas Eve morning 2011 has some pleasant sunshine shining on one of the trio of ex-KCS locomotives sitting on the old Great Northern wye that led to the G... (more)

The first diesel unit ever delivered to Soo Line rolls southward into Thief River Falls, filling in for the MNN 1356 after the latter went down with issues.

Tunnel motor #1343 leads the Warroad local back to Crookston via trackage rights on the CP from Dakota Junction to Erskine, then on BNSF from Erskine and west.

An Autumn Reflection: A brilliant evening in northwestern Minnesota is only enhanced by the relection in the water of the passing CP Plummer Line job from the Strata Corporation in Trail, ... (more)

Minnesota Northern's newest locomotive in MNN paint sit on Dakota Junction having just completed the St. Hilaire portion of the Warroad Local while the other half, MNN 1383 & 1380 work the norther... (more)