On a cold and windy December afternoon, a BNSF manifest climbs out of the Minnesota River valley at Granite Falls behind five GEs. Across the valley you can see a string of covered hoppers stored... (more)

A Warbonnet and a visiting CSX locomotive are hard at work with a loaded crude oil train. They're near the top of the hill between Marshall and Florence as they cross a steel bridge.

Southbound coal empties with two locomotives at either end swing through the curves north of Florence. They're nearly to the top of the climb from Marshall and will soon begin rolling down throug... (more)

Oil loads sweep around a curve south of Ruthton along BNSF's Marshall Subdivision behind a Warbonnet and visiting CSX power.

The weekday local out of Willmar is always a good bet to find on this stretch of the Marshall Sub in the afternoon. It didn't disappoint again on this day with three EMDs roaring under the overpa... (more)

GE's newest face of low emissions and efficiency passes the wind turbines of the Buffalo Ridge just south of Ruthton, MN.

A new Tier 4 GEVO leads a southbound grain train near Hanley Falls, MN.

A manifest behind two GEs is getting underway out of Willmar on their trip down the Marshall Sub to Sioux City, IA.

A manifest slowly rolls south through Clara City as a grain train and its power sit idle on a warm Saturday afternoon.

Eastbound grain train on the windless prairie.

Hot on the tail of a southbound manifest, the Marshall Local throttles up after a 25 mph speed restriction. The depot in town looks to be used by the railroad still.

This is sort of the "Google Street" view of a brand new BNSF SD70ACe rolling across the overpass in Granite Falls, working as a DPU of a northbound coal train.

With three units up front, an empty coal train is making quick work of the curves and hills along the Marshall Sub in extreme southwestern Minnesota on a clear but windy winter day. The empty coa... (more)

It's a windy afternoon on the Buffalo Ridge as a southbound BNSF manifest curves through the snowy landscape between Ruthton and Holland.

A single GE leads a unit tank train through Sioux City Line Jct and onto the Marshall Sub. Two more units are shoving on the end of the train. The loaded coal cars on the right are for the munic... (more)