Dueces trot a work train over the lengthy Gassman Coulee Trestle on a mild Winter afternoon.

Light cloud cover doesn't hinder a noon sun on a warm Winter day from lighting the stainless steel sides of Amtrak 7, the Westbound Empire Builder being assisted by a BNSF ES44AC. The sun w... (more)

ex-BCOL 738 idles in the siding in Minot, on the point of a work train awaiting next assignment.

Santa's big orange sleigh departs Minot with a fresh crew onboard, with 6800 feet of presents for people on the West Coast.

One of BNSF's SD70ACe's leads a duo of CSX GE's, one rated for 6000 horsepower, leads a 128 car Havre, MT to Northtown, MN "H9"...

A dying breed... With the CP rebuild/repaint program going on, the SOO SD60's are definitely a dying breed. Two of the white variety idle on the diesel track awaiting the call to assemble t... (more)

A greenie weenie and a Catfish make easy work of the 1 percent grade out of Minot with a 2800 ton stacks and rack train in tow.

With the EMD in the proper position ahead of the two GE's, a light 4900 ton Dilworth, MN to Pasco, WA manifest makes track speed up the near 1% grade out of Minot.

A SD60M duo leads a Chicago to Tacoma vehicle train over the Gassman Coulee Trestle.

Power for the Minot Roadswitcher sits on the diesel service track awaiting the next call to get back to switching.

The DPU of a Stanley, ND to Sapulpa, OK loaded crude oil train is heavy in dynamics assisting the two headend motors on holding back 99 loads on the near 1% grade dropping into the Souris River Va... (more)

CP 8821 rumbles over N. Main Street in downtown Minot, passing the old Soo Depot that is now a railroad museum.

Two 8200's lead a short twelve car Ray Turn (formally the Ross Local over the Gassman Coulee trestle as Fall color starts to settle into the Trestle Valley.

Returning to the Baaken for more crude oil, three Dash 9's lead a Sapulpa, OK to Stanley, ND oil empty across the Gassman Coulee Trestle.

Two GE's, one still wearing the Warbonnet paint job, leads a 11,294 ton Dilworth-Pasco manifest over the enormous Gassman Coulee trestle.