The resident Alco at the Sweet Bran plant in Dalhart shuffles some beautifully shiny BN "covered" hoppers around on a pleasant Friday morning. Sweet Bran is a cattle feed product made exclusively ... (more)

The BNSF's H-NTWLAU begins going across the long bridge the Northern Pacific built across the Sheyenne River in Valley City as the tail end of the CP's 498 passes underneath on that railroad's Car... (more)

The two locomotives owned by the cutely-named Right Cooperative Association 110 car shuttle elevator sit next to BNSF's sleepy La Junta Sub on a nice Saturday morning. The green locomotive behind ... (more)

The ex-Rarus Railway GP7 stationed at the Columbia Grain shuttle elevator in Harlem sits idle alongside the shuttle grain train it just helped to load.

The 2007 Holiday Train is giving its last show in Minnesota as children play on a pile of snow next to the locomotive and a curious family prepares to gets its photo taken in front of the train. M... (more)

A long, fully-loaded coal train makes its way through the barren landscape of southwestern North Dakota

A relatively short Northtown-Pasco manifest makes its way past the site of Springbrook on the double track that runs for 20 miles between Epping and Williston.

An empty coal train cruises over the Mississippi River bridge in Brainerd. Many thanks to BNSF for recently cleaning up the graffiti on the side of the bridge!

Three shiny new ES44C4s on their first revenue run lead the Z-CHCPTL2-21 past the diamonds in Moorhead. These ES44C4s are essentially ES44ACs, but instead of having 6 traction motors, they have 4,... (more)

The Northtown to Grand Forks manifest train comes "home" under snowy conditions and with an unusual consist: an ex-Santa Fe SD75M, an ex-BN SW1000, and a Ferromex SD40-2. The pigeons were sitting ... (more)

A loaded vehicle train sits in the modest yard in Glasgow, Montana awaiting a new crew.

The rear end of BNSF's Employee Special is on the last leg of its round-trip journey between Brainerd and Staples as it crosses over the former Northern Pacific bridge over the Mississippi River i... (more)

The Brainerd Local takes a run down First Avenue NE on its way to the city's paper mill

The Brainerd Local makes a routine run up First Avenue Northeast about to deliver 5 boxcars to the Wausau Paper Corporation's Brainerd facility.

The resident locomotive at the Oslo grain elevator is this GP9 that has been owned during the course of its life by the Grand Trunk Western, Kansas City Southern, Kansas Southwestern, and Northern... (more)