The Kansas City Southern business train basks in the autumn sunlight after returning to Union Station with a round-trip excursion.

Three P42DC's lead a slightly late-running Empire Builder through the sweeping curves at Maple Springs. The Mississippi River has provided plenty of moisture for overnight hoarfrost on the landsca... (more)

The clouds are winning the battle with the sun, but a last finger of light illuminates a westbound Union Pacific transfer between St. Paul and Valley Park as it passes through downtown St. Paul, M... (more)

A westbound autorack train splits the silence alongside the cemetery in Miller City, Ohio. The US&S bracket signal, a sentinel marking this as a former Nickel Plate Road territory, is headed to th... (more)

Spring is in the air as a stack train twists and turns downgrade at Bealville, CA.

Only one horse has taken notice as KCKPAS accelerates out from the siding in Reed Point, Montana. The train carries two Boeing airplane bodies at the front, and while it made an interesting train ... (more)

Saint Paul wraps around the Empire Builder on a frigid -22F Minnesota morning.

Autumn is in the air as the days are growing shorter, the shadows are growing longer, and the first tinges of color have struck the trees. This westbound intermodal train is rolling along the Flat... (more)

A Twin Cities & Western freight is on its way to interchange with CP in St. Paul as it passes through the Target Field Northstar commuter station in Minneapolis. Good dispatching has threaded this... (more)

One of Amtrak's 40th Anniversary locomotives hustles through the night on the point of the eastbound Capitol Limited. The train is running wrong-main, dodging slower freights in an attempt to make... (more)

Three SD50Fs, formerly owned by CN, pilot an eastbound Dakota Missouri Valley & Western train across a "pothole" in the rolling North Dakota countryside east of Wishek. This trackage is former Soo... (more)

Season's Greetings! Marquette Rail's 2010 Santa Train gets a friendly wave from a snowman as it approaches the tiny village of Fountain in northwest Michigan. This train makes multip... (more)

A leased Utah Transit Authority locomotive, known as the "Bombpop," shoves the last morning inbound Northstar commuter train through the urban canyons of Minneapolis. Survey crews are marking the ... (more)

After being told that there were to be "Absolutely no photos of the train, none whatsoever" by the security guards at the power plant, we still managed to find the Escalante-Western and shoot it f... (more)

The southbound Lakeville Turn cuts across highway 23 near Eureka Center, MN. A local railfan is out taking photos on this warm autumn day.