Duluth & Northeastern #28 runs her second ever public excursion on the North Shore Scenic Railroad in torrential rainfall. The #28's restoration took six years and over $750,000 to complete. ... (more)

A perfect trio of matching cascade green SD40-2s dating to the early 1970s make their way east on the Grand Forks to Northtown freight a couple of hours after sunrise. They were making every bi... (more)

I was listening to the scanner wondering if anything cool was running on the Staples Sub. I soon got an answer when I heard "BNSF 1940 East approach medium at Darling". I then proceeded out to ... (more)

A surviving Santa Fe geep leads a healthy local eastward to Northtown. It was pleasing to see that BNSF had not yet disbanded this local, as a few favorite local jobs in the area were dissolved ea... (more)

A GP30 body shell leads a Santa Fe painted GP39 on a decent sized local to Northtown yard from St. Cloud's former GN yard.

BNSF wasn't fooling around when they sent a quartet of veteran EMD SD40-2s on the mainline to handle a two-mile long manifest on their own. I definitely consider myself lucky!

A matching pair of BN 3-window ("triclops") SD60Ms take charge of the slow Grand Forks to Northtown manifest as it exits Becker and crosses into Big Lake limits.

A trio of cascade green SD40-2s head up the Dilworth to Northtown manifest entering Clear Lake, MN. These units came due for their 92-day inspection, which is done in Northtown. BNSF catered to... (more)

An unusual power set leads an intermodal freight from Northtown to Staples to switch out power for the rest of the trip west. Included in this powerset is a BN 3-window ('triclops') SD60M leadi... (more)

An unusual power set leads an intermodal freight from Northtown to Staples to switch out power for the rest of the trip west. Included in this powerset is a BN 3-window ('triclops') SD60M leadi... (more)

With temps near 40 degrees, Amtrak 8 runs 4 hours behind left-handed around road foreman on Valentine's Day 2017.

As the sun begins to lower to the horizon after reaching past the thawing temperature, a pair of CSX AC...CW motors power a vehicle train westbound.

With temps around 8 degrees, an eastbound coal load passes through the town of Big Lake on a beautiful sunny morning.

On a frigid day in Minnesota, a trio of SD40-2s on a throwback to that of 20 years ago this week, as it was the first week of operation for BNSF railway. Temperatures were well below zero, but it ... (more)

With one of the P42s out of service with a blown turbo, Amtrak called upon the aid of BNSF, but this time, unlike the typical GE helper, an EMD SD70ACe was put in passenger service.