Grain loads from Saskatoon head west on the main track at Hinton.

Fresh pellet steam wisps off of the loaded taconite cars as Canadian National's U717 snakes its way out of the departure tracks at the Fairlane Taconite Plant in Forbes, Minnesota. A trio of class... (more)

After shedding a trailing motor in Dewitt, B706 Continues West with empty Ethanol cars. CN 8953, only one digit higher than my favorite CN Heritage unit, takes the bridge over Mud Creek in East Pa... (more)

L574 zooms over County Road N east of Colfax. This local runs west from CF Yard (Chippewa Falls) serving customers as far west as needed before returning. There are quite a few of these old piling... (more)

BLE 909 and two other EMDs ease a train of taconite down the hill from Proctor to Duluth, MN.

Another quarter mile and this crew will come to a stop ending their trip from CN's Pokegama yard to Ranier, MN. As soon as they get off the train, a Canadian crew will jump on board and cross the... (more)

The first pellets of the new year are loaded into 137 ore cars and ready to go back to Proctor yard behind three BLE tunnels.

Eastbound stacks reach the top of the hill at Redpass.

Crude oil loads from Kinder Morgan in Edmonton (North Strathcona) are tied down in track #5 at Jasper waiting for a crew.

205 loaded cars of potash from Cutarm, SK thunder past a recent derailment site at the west end of Swan Landing.

CN SD75I 5653 and SD70ACe 8103 lead 118 loaded LPG tanks west.

Grain empties gather speed tipping over the top of the hill at Redpass.

CN ES44AC 2965 eases the tailend of C779's train down the steep Robson Sub.

Wearing GTW heritage colours, CN SD70M-2 8952 holds the south track at Niton with train A417 while M303's train flies by on the north.

BCOL C44-9W 4646 leads X111's train west on the Edson Sub between Niton and Peers.