Dakota, Missouri Valley & Western’s “wayfreight” passes milepost 485 on the north side of Lake Sakakawea as it approaches Garrison, North Dakota, on the afternoon of August 31, 2018.

An evening CPKC grain train glides westward through the Mouse River Valley along the Portal Subdivision. Most locomotives are ex-CP still, but some KCS locomotives have shown up as mid-train DPUs... (more)

A BNSF C44-9W brings up the rear of an empty coal train as it heads back to the mines on a frigid March day. The train is rolling past the frozen lakes at the Bryan Mohler Waterfowl Production Are... (more)

On the first day of 2024, F-JAMJAM as its known on the BNSF system is Red Rivers turn that runs on BNSF trackage from Jamestown, ND to Casselton, and back. Here, it flies above the town of Valley... (more)

The rains of springtime have greened up the Badlands of North Dakota, as an eastbound BNSF coal train snakes through through the curves at Sully Springs on June 20, 2015.

Grain loads that were handed off from the Red River Valley & Western RR at Casselton soar west near Luverne on a perfect December Sunday.

A solid train of double stacks from the west coast crosses over a frozen Lake Ashtabula on the Karnak trestle near Luverne, ND.

Powered by Canadian Pacific EMD SD60 No. 6245 and a pair of SD30C-ECOs, a CP local has arrived beneath the imposing grain elevators lining the tracks at Max, North Dakota, on August 28, 2018. This... (more)

A BNSF coal train makes its way through the North Dakota Badlands at Sully Springs on August 26, 2018, while eastbound on the railroad’s Dickinson Subdivision.

Fill ’er up at Washburn
Dakota, Missouri Valley & Western’s wayfreight pauses for fuel at Wilton, North Dakota, on August 27, 2018. Leading the train is one of DMV&W’s former Cana... (more)

An eastbound BNSF coal train passes milepost 143 as it slinks through the Badlands at Sully Springs, North Dakota, on August 26, 2018.

A westbound BNSF ballast train of Herzog cars crosses one of the many “prairie pothole” lakes found in the area just east of Cleveland, North Dakota, on the afternoon of September 1, 2018.

Dakota, Missouri Valley & Western EMD SD50F No. 5439 and EMD SD40-3 No. 3134 sit inside the railroad’s compact, but capable, locomotive shop in Bismarck, North Dakota, on August 27, 2018.

Dakota, Missouri Valley & Western EMD SD60F Nos. 5501 and 5544 slowly roll through the yard at Coal Creek Junction, North Dakota, on August 29, 2023. Up on the hill in the background is the DMV&W�... (more)

A Canadian Pacific local arrives in front of the grain elevators lining the tracks at Max, North Dakota, on August 28, 2018. This local works east out of Max on the railroad’s New Town Subdivisi... (more)