The fall colors of Minnesota's Iron Range showcase themselves as Northshore Mining's morning loads split a pair of searchlight signals.
A mile out of Flaxton ND where the DMVW interchanges with the CPR, a 100+ car train crosses the prairie with fields of yellow blooms.
3 BNSF Pumpkins lead an oil train past Spike's farm store selling recently harvested pumpkins for Halloween.
A ballast train with a couple of veteran SD40-2's loaded at Ortonville MN is staged at CP's La Cresent Yard for an undercutting project on the Marquette Subdivision.
A quiet Sunday afternoon at Northern Industrial Sands finds a couple of SD40M-2's sandwiching PGR 42 SD38-2 (ex-Reserve Mining 1242) on a train tied down for the weekend along with Wisconsin North... (more)
A relatively freshly repainted GP60M-3 leads the St. Cloud local. This train operates and serves customers between St. Cloud and Northtown and interchanges cars with Northern Lines Railway in St.... (more)
Metro Transit's Northstar commuter trains all have the day off with the Labor Day holiday.
Labor Day finds the St. Cloud local train just throttling up from being stopped waiting for opposing traffic to clear. Northstar commuter rail facility is to the right, accessed by the lead track... (more)
There's not much need for a snow plow in the middle of summer and Northern Plains Railroad 18 is in storage along with a string of tank cars. The NPR (ex-Soo Line) and ex-Great Northern cross at ... (more)
The fate of Ex-CN 7278 looks quite uncertain as it rests on weed infested rails in the small hamlet of Lansford ND. The Soo Line and ex-Great Northern cross at grade just beyond the line of locos... (more)
A loaded train from New Century Ag's Noonan ND shuttle facility works its way across the North Dakota prairie towards Flaxton where it will be handed off to the CPR.
A DMVW train completes an air test on their train interchanged from the CPR before departing west.
A freshly loaded shuttle train from the New Century Ag Noonan facility rolls eastward toward the CPR connection at Flaxton ND.
Empire Builder rolls thru lush green fields enroute to St. Paul Union Depot.
15 minutes into their journey from Babbitt to Lake Superior, the first loaded train of the day passes thru the heart of the Superior National Forest.
