The rear end of an empty coal train from Big Stone City, SD cruises past a rural crossing to the east of Marmarth. Once a bustling city of over 1,000 due to being a division point on the Milwaukee... (more)

Two SD40-2s idle away at the west end of the Enderlin Yard on a pleasant Valentine's Day.

An empty coal train from Superior, Wisconsin transitions off double track and onto single track at Eldridge. The double track begins about 13 miles to the east in Bloom and is the last piece of do... (more)

The Mayville Local pulls into its namesake city on a pleasant Friday afternoon. The crew will spend some time switching industries in town before tying the train down, resting, and getting back ab... (more)

A near "earthworm" of a unit grain train ascends the small hill leading out of the central Minnesota town of Randall. The train evidently got snowed on as it was heading through Montana and North ... (more)

After spending most of the day doing work in nearly every city on the Staples Subdivision west of Wadena, the Wadena Local is nearing its home terminal of Dilworth with a nice mix of 19 cars, incl... (more)

An empty coal train cruises past the Terry Badlands and alongside the Yellowstone River as it continues west through eastern Montana.

The daily manifest train from Laurel, MT to Dilworth, MN has a KCS locomotive in the lead as it crosses the Maple River in Mapleton.

A lone GEVO in front takes an empty coal train through the small town of Mullen

An eastbound manifest train passes through downtown Grand Island. It looks like the locomotive in the middle is wearing a coat of UP's "armour black."

An SD60M "triclops" leads a westbound general merchandise train through Verndale

Due to a derailment 65 miles up the line at McKenzie, this empty coal train was forced to stop on the main at Windsor and await further instructions from the dispatcher

A manifest train passes by the wheat fields and buttes just east of Gladstone. In the foreground is Interstate 94, often quite a lonley road through this area.

The two locomotives on the front work hard to bring their train up the hill coming into Glendo

BNSF 1535 (former NP 234) and BN 1517 (former GN 908) were the two geeps used today for the Brainerd Local, which travels from Superior, WI to Brainerd, MN