Merry Christmas! The City of Minot proudly displays their tree and nutcrackers every year on Main Street next to the vintage Soo Line depot. It's been my goal every year to get at least one... (more)

Christmas came early for me, and Santa got exactly what I wanted! With one of my two new camera bodies (Canon 6D, the other being a 7D) in hand, and a UP SD9043MAC trotting 5800 feet of grain empt... (more)

Nearly a mile of auto-racks hustles West over BNSF's KO Subdivision on a splendid Winter afternoon, led by a former Conrail SD60.

Trotting into the low evening sun over the Carrington Sub, CP's Holiday train is just minutes away from their Harvey stop.

Home Free and Kira Isabella are mid-performance while the CP 2249 idles in the calm cold evening air during Canadian Pacific's Holiday Train stop in Minot.

Flying East, 10,800 horsepower from three SD45's hustle 8,000 feet of manifest traffic out of Livingston on a spectacular Fall morning.

Inspired by fellow RP member and excellent photographer Sean Kelly's image posted earlier of the Night Gas under the Mission Mountains on the 10th Sub, I had to dig up my photo from the same locat... (more)

The flakes are flying sideways on a cold November afternoon, while the NS 8099 works West over BNSF's Glasgow Subdivision and through the OS at West Tagus, on Main 2. The fact Winter is hitting so... (more)

Look! A 40 foot boxcar in 2014! A lone Montana Rail Link SD40-2XR leads a short MOW reposition move over the Skyline Trestle on a phenomenal morning, where the warming temperature is quickl... (more)

The sight of an occasional mermaid and song of hundreds of frogs are disrupted by three 20 cylinder SD45's and 10,800 horsepower roaring West with a heavy 119 car manifest over what is called &quo... (more)

Spent diesel fuel fills the calm Montana mountain air on a chilly Fall morning, while the sound of three EMD 645's drowns out the peaceful rushing waters of the Clark Fork River. The lead locomoti... (more)

Exiting the Mullan Tunnel at Blossburg, MRL 319 West and company breathe fresh air for the first time in the last 3,426 feet. The famous Blossburg Black Fog isn't of what it used to be before the ... (more)

A quartet of SD70ACe's based out of the State Capitol return light over the impressive Skyline Trestle on a gorgeous Fall morning after assisting a Westbound grain train over Mullan Pass.

Crossing the Yellowstone at a location known as Twin Bridges, engineer Dave Steel keeps the 318 West and company under control on a breezy and warm Fall afternoon. A few hours later, the 318 would... (more)

The rushing waters of the beautiful Yellowstone River are drowned out by three 645-20's in the eighth notch which are fighting a stiff headwind and 7900 tons of Laurel to Spokane manifest traffic.... (more)