BNSF 8321 leads a track evaluation train underneath Dayton's Bluff in Saint Paul, Minnesota while overtaking a tied-down manifest.

CN 3303, a rebuilt AC44C6M, leads an intermodal train over the St. Croix River near Gordon, Wisconsin on the CN Superior Subdivision mainline heading southeast toward Ladysmith and beyond.

The Empire Builder pauses for the conductor to engage the electric switch at the west end of the Minnesota Commercial yard area at St. Anthony Junction in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Recent snow and w... (more)

The Belt Job, under the control of MNNR 76, heads into the yard in Saint Paul on the opposite end of its duties. This new acquisition for the Minnesota Commercial has number 76, whereas it retaine... (more)

CPKC J88 departs Thief River Falls with a single ECO unit bound for Glenwood with intermediate switching points en route.

CN L533 with traffic from the BNSF at Noyes, Minnesota, traverses the Red River Valley in southern Manitoba north of Letellier after working Mid Canada Transload Service.

Union Pacific 6925 is living on borrowed time with metaphorical eviction notice to vacate the former Dakota Southern property now in operation by Watco's Ringneck & Western who leases the railroad... (more)

Minnesota Commercial's Alcos and MLWs are joined together in the yard as a string of dead line locomotives. Though I never was able to get a photo of MNNR 35 in action, it is a consolation to at ... (more)

CP 2224 and 2200 bring empty hoppers east along 110 plus year old rail on the Plummer Line - the original Soo Line Thief River Falls to Duluth mainline. In reality, the railroad split from the ma... (more)

CP 7056 leads train 240 across the Red Lake River in Thief River Falls with extra grain traffic, CPKC 346, along for the ride down the Detroit Lakes Subdivision mainline.

Celebrating 25 years of railroading, NPR 2283 wears a basic blue and yellow paint scheme to honor Northern Plains Railroad. NPR has worked former Soo Line Wheat Lines in North Dakota and Minnesot... (more)

Mixed freight traffic eases through the siding track at Sauntry (Solon Springs) after meeting opposing traffic. Sauntry is the first siding within single track territory south of Hawthorne where ... (more)

CN 3075 leads manifest traffic up the Superior Subdivision mainline at Exeland, Wisconsin after meeting three opposing movements at Murray.

Manifest traffic traverses the short peninsula at Point Park while departing Fort Frances, Ontario down the CN Rainy Subdivision. The crew is staring down the cantilever bridge spanning the headw... (more)

Semaphore blades and code poles...these classic railroad mechanisms align the right-of-way of the Raton and Glorieta subdivisions in New Mexico where Amtrak's Southwest Chief traverses the ... (more)