The evening sun on a pretty spectacular summer day in northwestern Minnesota brings out some brilliant color in not only the sky and vegetation, but in Minnesota Northern's GP10 #1380 seen here li... (more)

Viewed from the northeast side of the bridge, a shiny pair of GEVOs rolls northward across the Red Lake River and into the "TR Falls" yard.

A lone AC44 leaser fronts a southbound freight across the Red Lake River as it heads out of the yard.

CP 8846 and its train in tow sit under dramatic partly cloudy skies. Trains on the Noyes/Detroit Lakes Subdivisions have increased due to flooding in North Dakota.

During a day of sporadic rain storms, a rainbow popped up east of Thief River Falls providing a nice backdrop for the resident switching power for the Farmers Co-Op Grain & Seed elevator, now comp... (more)

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.

Station sign Thief River Falls...pretty anti-climactic...two GP40's sit in the yard as local power on a quiet Easter 2011 weekend. Along the Canadian Pacific right-of-way are two of the city's gr... (more)

After being freshly refueled, two bright red Soo Line SD60's face north over the Easter holiday weekend with a short set of cars in tow.

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)

The weekly Warroad local sits north of Thief River Falls on a pleasant summer evening.

In addition to the Independent Locomotive Service's eclectic fleet of locomotives, ILSX 1343, a snoot-nose SD40-2 tunnel motor, just got added into the mix. This former Union Pacific locomotive a... (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)

A pair of veteran SOO diesels sing the trademark EMD song as they begin their journey down the Detroit Lakes Sub. The train was 13,000 tons, so this days work wasn't going to be easy. In its man... (more)

Fresh from the Independent Locomotive Service shop in Holt, Minnesota Northern's cow-calf unit (formerly of the Belt Railway of Chicago #504) makes an appearance on the MNN Warroad Local. This pa... (more)

One half of the weekly Minnesota Northern Warroad Local idles to avoid freezing in the typical negative temperatures of winter in northwestern Minnesota. This half of the local will travel 9 mile... (more)