A Dash 8 and an Oakway SD60 team up to lead a long manifest train east near Staples.

An empty coal train coming from Michigan rounds a curve between Ashland and Greenwood, getting up to track speed after stopping at the nearby Ashland Wye so that the H-LINDIL could proceed up the ... (more)

The westbound CSX-Pasco, WA merchandise train crosses over to main 2 in Hawley to let a Z-train behind it on main 1 pass by. Notice that this is technically a "CSY" locomotive.

Three Warbonnet EMDs lead an empty coal train high above the Sheyenne River in Valley City as storm clouds begin forming in the sky.

An empty coal train taking the seldom used route from Cohasset, MN to the mines blows up a little bit of freshly fallen snow as it comes across the Mississippi River bridge in Brainerd. With about... (more)

Showing off a nearly complete set of shiny new hoppers, an empty coal train continues west through the plains of central Nebraska

The rear helper does its best to shove the final third of a loaded coal train up the hill at Sully Springs.

After running out of time, the crew on the Brainerd local was forced to park their train in Brainerd overnight, allowing for a picture that would otherwise not be possible. A clocktower at the for... (more)

The rear end of a loaded grain train continues west through the gently rolling countryside of east-central North Dakota.

One of the first coal loads destined to MERC in Superior, WI following the terminal's annual mid-January maintenance shutdown splits the signals at East Dilworth, the westernmost terminus of the S... (more)

A Z-train rounds the curve coming into Hawley (note that the second unit is the BN 9670, an SD70MAC - a rare locomotive breed for such a high priority train)

The Amtrak station may be to the right, but the incapacitated AMTK 23 isn't headed in that direction. In reality, it (along with two other Amtrak locomotives) is uncoupled from the rest of the more)

A stack train crosses the swollen Red River between Fargo, ND and Moorhead, MN. The level of the river at the time was 32.85 feet and continuing to decrease from the preliminary all-time record hi... (more)

Two veteran SD40-2s lead a short vehicle train through a harvested field east of the town of Karnak, whose current population can be counted with one hand.

Originally NW 1345, then NS 1345, this GP40 now belongs to the DGNO Railroad