Not quite cold enough for snowmobilers to become excited, but the ATV folks will have fun in a couple of weeks during the Wisconsin deer hunting season.

Coal empties throttle up out of Superior. The crossing sign is a silent sentinel to when the Soo Line crossed the BN at this location (diamonds removed in the late 1980s).

A loaded ore train from Hibbing Taconite rolls towards Superior (Allouez) near where the GN crossed the NP.

Santa Fe SD75 231 waits in Sando siding for an Amtrak San Joaquin to run around it.

The conductor gives a wave as the BNSF 8249 heads west along the Mississippi near the Golden Eagle Ferry on a beautiful October day.

BNSF 8260 finally gets under way after the West Lead, seen on the right, cleared its warrant after spotting cars at Henningsen Cold Storage just south of F.O. Switch. A third train, M-MINSUP is w... (more)

The last light of dusk illuminates the 8260 as a Hunters full moon rises over a former Soo Line grain hopper.

BNSF 8260 with the Reader's Digest large-print scheme leads a six-pack of power on today's empty Clay Boswell train across the Red River and into North Dakota. Along for the ride are an Oakway, a... (more)

Clay Boswell empties make the turn onto the Hillsboro Subdivision with an impressive display of BNSF paint schemes.

Clay Boswell empties roll South out of the town of Thompson with an impressive assortment of BNSF paint schemes.

An impressive consist of six locomotives including an SD75M, an SD60, an SD60M, two unpatched BN SD70MACs, and a pre-swoosh GEVO thunders out of Grand Forks alongside the ex-GNR poleline paralleli... (more)

A brief clearing in the clouds over the Grand Cities yields just enough time for a quick shot as a trio of SD75Ms leads Clay Boswell coal loads eastward. Consists like this aren't very common on c... (more)

BNSF 8244, BNSF 8225, CITX 140 haul 123 "DEEX/DETX" loads for Detroit Edison's Midwest Energy Terminal in Superior, WI.

The days are getting longer, but the river still shows signs of the winter that hangs on as empty coal hoppers cross into Iowa.

Making the turn off the Brookfield sub onto the Ottumwa sub, this empty coal train has completed leg one of its reload cycle.