It's always a treat to see an RCPE train west of Tracy in good light. With a grain shuttle train tied down on the siding at Florence, the RCPE's Mankato, MN to Aurora, SD manifest is continuing we... (more)

A westbound RCPE train gets underway out of Tracy behind 7 locomotives. The last three are HLCX GP38-2's headed to Huron, SD for some work.

A passing Canadian Pacific freight helped my kids and I pass the time as we awaited the arrival of the eastbound Empire Builder to take us to Wisconsin Dells for a fun day out on Memorial Day week... (more)

Westbound train 299 rolls north along the Detroit Lakes Sub at Henning, MN behind a rebuilt SD9043MAC, now an SD70ACU. They've been around for a little while, but this is the first one of these re... (more)

As a single locomotive waits for congestion ahead at Dilworth Yard to clear, an eastbound unit train of dried distiller's grain approaches Moorhead Jct where it will turn from the former Northern ... (more)

A westbound Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern train operating from Mankato, MN to Aurora, SD passes the former Chicago & North Western depot in Sleepy Eye, MN on a beautiful March evening. The lead loc... (more)

A Twin Cities & Western train gets underway after doing some work at the elevator in North Redwood, MN. The small stone marker includes a plaque honoring Richard W. Sears of Sears & Roebuck fame. ... (more)

At 10 mph, the results aren't very dramatic, but it's always fun to see a train break through some plow ridges. An eastbound TC&W train is moving covered hoppers out of storage on this former Minn... (more)

The prairie is desolate and cold on a windy February afternoon as a Twin Cities & Western train brings covered hoppers out of storage on the Minnesota Prairie Line.

The Twin Cities & Western works through frigid conditions to move some covered hoppers from storage at the western end of the Minnesota Prairie Line. The 2301 is a former Kennecott Copper Mining l... (more)

An eastbound UP manifest traverses a landscape once traveled by immense herds of buffalo hunted by plains Indians, wagons filled with pioneers on the Oregon trail, surveyors and builders of the fi... (more)

A former Belt Railway of Chicago GP7 stretches its legs on a frosty winter morning, loading grain cars for Frontier Cooperative in North Bend, NE.

An eastbound empty autorack train rolls through the foggy and frosty Platte River valley between North Bend and Fremont, NE.

After waiting on some Union Pacific traffic to clear up, it was BNSF's turn. In thick fog and frost, a southbound unit tank train crosses the UP industrial track on the east side of downtown Fremo... (more)

After waiting on a higher priority intermodal train, two manifest freights get underway at the same time through Fremont on a foggy and frosty morning. They're meeting at the Union Street interloc... (more)