Northern Pacific FP7 6510C leads train number 2 near Dickinson North Dakota in 1956. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Dakota, Missouri Valley & Western’s “wayfreight” passes the grain elevators at Garrison, North Dakota, on August 28, 2018. The train is led by DMVW No. 6911, a former Canadian National SD40 ... (more)

NP In ND. Built in 1898, teh Northern Pacific Railway Depot designed by famed architect Cass Gilbert. Passenger train ceased to used this facility in 1970, but it was added to the National ... (more)

Photo by John T. Kennedy, from my collection.

Look ma, no snow. LOL.

Sometime in the late seventies a WB freight is crossing the big trestle west of town. It may have been that blizzard we had one May 15th. Welcome to North Dakota.

Dakota, Missouri Valley & Western’s “Corn Train” rumbles through through a curve approaching the town of Wilton, North Dakota, on the railroad’s Missouri Valley Subdivision on August 29, 2... (more)

A mixture of GE and EMD power leads a lengthy Northtown Yard to Laurel, MT manifest westbound onto the former Northern Pacific Jamestown Subdivision at KO Jct, a few miles west of Casselton, ND.

Westbound coal empties soar above the Sheyenne River valley at Valley City, ND.

A pair of GP35's sandwich an ex-SOO GP9 on this grain train.

Dakota, Missouri Valley & Western’s “Corn Train” rolls through Falkirk, North Dakota, approaching milepost 511 on the railroad’s Missouri Valley Subdivision on August 29, 2018. The train i... (more)

SOO 4412 and a couple of Milwaukee Road bandits do some switching at Parshall ND.

Lite power from Dilworth to Mandan heads west into the North Dakota prairie after a day of strong winds and powdery snow. The engineer gave a big wave once the snow cleared and that was a fitting ... (more)

Back in 2007, this Alma, WI, to Black Thunder Mine, pulls into the siding at Antelope on the Jamestown Sub. The leader is less than a year old, and is leading 2 older MACs. The Dickinson Sub is th... (more)

A pair of DP units shoves on the back of this Superior to Deck Mine empty coal train on the Jamestown Sub. The train is crossing the massive bridge over the Sheyenne River at Valley City. The brid... (more)