Amtrak train number 8, the eastbound Empire Builder, is running over 5 hours late as it hustles through a fall snowstorm in central Minnesota. They're just east of New York Mills and doing their b... (more)

The Twin Cities & Western is still at work at the sugar beet plant near Renville as blizzard conditions slow most everything else in the area to a halt. Groundhog Day doesn't mean much to Minneso... (more)

Thanks to the first "polar vortex" of 2016, fierce winds and a dusting of fresh snow the night before created a few drifts for the westbound Ruebel Turn to negotiate, such as this one be... (more)

Driving home through the fog last night, I hoped there would be some frost this morning. I wasn't disappointed, and the BNSF obliged with a few trains on the Marshall Sub. First was this grain t... (more)

A westbound behind a GEVO and a GP40 still in original SOO hockey stick paint cuts through the fog just a few minutes before sunrise east of Lowry, MN.

Snow has been pretty scarce around here this winter, but the flakes are flying in early March as the H55 wayfreight rolls into Brooten from the west to do some work. Two former Soo Line GP38-2s l... (more)

Some nice fluffy snow is falling and there's not a GE in sight at the roundhouse in Willmar.

A very foggy winter morning finds an SD70ACe hurrying east past the restored Northern Pacific depot in Wadena with a loaded coal train.

As snow showers continue along with strong winds, two SD60s fly toward Glenwood with a short westbound, kicking up plenty of snow in their wake.

In the midst of a heavy snow shower, two trains meet at Murray just east of Belgrade, MN. A westbound is in the siding with two SD60s for power as an eastbound with a single GE up front and anoth... (more)

On a crisp fall morning in west central Minnesota, westbound CP train 199 slowly rolls past the state land west of Sedan as the sun rises out of the fog.

Minutes after Jeremiah Rindahl captured his stunning photo of Amtrak's detouring Empire Builder at this location, the sun is breaking the horizon and the fog is beginning to dissipate over Lake As... (more)

After being run around by a stack train, a westbound manifest is about to get underway again toward Cheyenne as storms continue to rumble overhead and a rainbow appears. I certainly wouldn't consi... (more)

After enjoying a nice meal at Ole's Big Game Bar & Grill in Paxton, we started to make our way back to North Platte. By Sutherland we were hearing reports of tennis ball sized hail and it was obv... (more)

A westbound headed north up the Detroit Lakes Sub cuts through some early morning fog as it gets underway out of Glenwood.