A loaded grain train between Crosby and Noonan ND passes a farm enroute to interchange with the CPR at Flaxton ND.

6 DMVW motors pull a grain empty that was earlier received from interchange with the CPR at Flaxton ND.

A Cenex Harvest States GP9 rests on a July afternoon. The front number board still indicates its heritage as ex NPR 2286. Originally GTW 4912.

North Central Grain's GP10 locomotive ILSX 1001 rests on the stub track at Bisbee ND. This unit has quite a colorful past operating in MS, WA and all across the IC back in the day. With a BNSF s... (more)

A BNSF grain shuttle on the loop track at Doyon ND. This former GNRR station was founded in 1883 and named for Charles Doyon, a local bonanza farmer from VT.

A BNSF grain empty snakes its way up the Rolla Subdivision for loading at Bisbee. This Great Northern branch line laid in the late 1880's once extended to the Canadian border and into southern Ma... (more)

Strata Corp BGSX 230 on an elevator track on the west side of Devils Lake ND. BGSX = Bradshaw Gravel Supply.

A clean set of SD75M's handle a westbound manifest train that originated at Northtown.

One of Amtrak's new Charger units trails a weather beaten leader on the Empire Builder.

A recently painted GP9 at Livingston Montana.

The Empire Builder with new Charger locomotives is well documented from the air and the ground by fellow railfan Chris Laskowski.

Amtrak #8, The Empire Builder, running 7 hours late kicks up some snow with one of the heritage units leading.

The night sky is alive with thousands of stars, the Big Dipper and a meteor streaking by.....all while the solitude is broken by the sound of EMD's dragging the 11pm loads out of Babbitt destined ... (more)

While the historic city water tower is no longer in use, it makes for a nice backdrop as Amtrak's Empire Builder operating over five hours late sweeps thru an S curve in downtown Elk River MN.

A 98 car train has just departed New Ulm and is crossing the Cottonwood River.