The eastbound Empire Builder accelerates through Fall River, Wisconsin led by two of Amtrak's finest and even a bit dirty locomotives. The train is a minute or so away from the next station... (more)

Wisconsin & Southern's T006 from the Madison yard to Janesville departs southbound over east Washington Avenue about to cross over Dickinson Street.

The Milwaukee to Chicago Hiawatha Service train #340 departs Milwaukee Intermodal Station on time at 1545 led eastbound by the NPCU #90368 with the Amtrak phase III livery.

The Empire Builder heads through Oconomowoc after departing Milwaukee Intermodal Station on-time at 1555. The train is approximately half-way between Milwaukee and its next stop westbound ... (more)

What railroad is this with three pairs of patched locomotives? The Northern Plains Thief River Falls Turn starts out of the yard for the switch at Dakota Junction where it will take for its... (more)

Minnesota Northern 1380 sits south of Dakota Junction adjacent to Evan's Steel & Scrap, a customer along the Warroad subdivision that receives gondolas for shipping out scrap metal. The wheat fie... (more)

The Trail Turn, an "as-needed" local serving the Strata Corporation aggregate company's pit in Trail, Minnesota, passes a classic elevator scene in the farming community of Oklee. This community ... (more)

The Trail Turn under the control of ECO motors 2211 & 2216 kick up a cloud of gravel on the Polk County highway #33 grade crossing east of Oklee. This local is on its way back to Thief River Fall... (more)

Hauling Gravel Through a Sea of Grain The "as needed" Trail Turn, designated at CP H54, is on its way back to Thief River Falls after exchanging empty open hoppers for loaded hoppers at th... (more)

Short line carrier Minnesota Northern takes advantage that the leasing company, Independent Locomotive Service (ILSX), is a major part-owner of the company. Minnesota Northern has a roster of fou... (more)

The Minnesota Northern Warroad Local with a third locomotive, ILSX 1328, and a string of boxcars heads out of Thief River Falls over the Red Lake River bound for Crookston via Erskine.

Northern Plains Railroad's Thief River Falls Turn pulls through the 8th street grade crossing past the series of grain elevators lining the right-of-way switching its cut of empty gravel hoppers a... (more)

A 3xx-series Canadian Pacific grain train led by two CSX locomotives traverses over the new Greenwood Street underpass bridge, a project behind schedule by a month due to a long winter season. In... (more)

The Empire Builder that originated in Seattle/Portland on Friday, June 28, leaves St. Paul just over and hour and a half late. Emergency crews arrived to meet the train at Midway station f... (more)

After traveling by the Puget Sound, through the Cascades, Glacier National Park, the Great Plains of Montana and North Dakota, plus the farming landscape of Minnesota, the Empire Builder tr... (more)