UP 7883 leads a Twin Cities to Superior (Itasca Yard) manifest across a trestle over Bluff Creek at Ambridge, just south of Superior, WI. The 6 car train is amply powered and reflects UP's diminut... (more)

SP 290 leads a Wisconsin Central intermodal hotshot train north approaching Marsh siding at the County Highway D crossing located between Slinger and Theresa Station, WI. WC developed this service... (more)

A trio of cabooses bring up the rear of a westbound BN freight rolling through Newport, MN on its last lap into the Twin Cities. BN 10708, a modern extended vision caboose is preceded by two forme... (more)

CN 2041 leads a trio of GE's on an empty ore train arriving at Minntac from Two Harbors (ore dock). This loco was built as CNW 8542 in August 1990 and became UP 9064. C&NW ordered these GE's with ... (more)

A Santa Fe "quality" TOFC train rolls through Joliet led by a ATSF 574 and two more Superfleet GE's, along with a blue Dash 8-40B. The scheme certainly brightens up a rainy day!

BN 9812 features a unique nose door twin sealed beam headlight as well as BN's passenger scheme at Minneapolis. The unit is former NP 7010D, built late in the F unit era in March 1956. It also use... (more)

Strange bedfellows at Corwith Yard on the Santa Fe in Chicago. Relatively new GP60 ATSF 4022 is joined by former MILW/SOO SD40-2, EMD 6082, featuring the low moment for both Milwaukee Road and Soo... (more)

BN 9859 (Passenger number), an SDP45, is seen in freight service at Minneapolis' Harrison St. roundhouse. With the creation of Amtrak, BN was quick to pull SDP40s & 45s off passenger trains and mo... (more)

BNSF 6893 provides rear end support as a DPU on an eastbound grain empty traveling through the Little Blackfoot River valley east of Garrison on its way to Mullan Pass and Helena on Montana Rail L... (more)

Santa Fe GP50 3842 leads a trio of Superfleet GP60Ms and a GP60B west on the south side of Streator with a 199 high priority Intermodal train made up mostly if not entirely of TOFC. Santa Fe was n... (more)

BN 3001, former CBQ GP40 no. 171, built December 1966, mates up with a GP30 and U25B at the former Burlington roundhouse area at North La Crosse, WI, the first crew change on BN east of St. Paul/M... (more)

BN 6254, former CBQ SD24 no. 514, built May 1959, shows off its BN scheme complete with former Burlington Mars lights at Harrison Street roundhouse, Minneapolis.

UP local L12 led by UP 1938 is surrounded by color tree tunnel as it clips along through Roberts, WI heading east to Menomonie and Altoona, WI.

UP local L12 led by UP 1938 climbs the grade up Hudson hill after crossing the St. Croix River. The train is returning to Altoona after switching Bayport, MN. This location is Sono Junction, and t... (more)

An empty grain shuttle rolls east on Montana Rail Link's former BN/NP mainline through Lombard Canyon just southeast of Toston, MT. The Missouri River winds through the canyon, just downstream fro... (more)