Independent Locomotive Service #1340 wobbles its way south from Dakota Junction through the west side of Thief River Falls over the jointed rail of the southern Warroad subdivision. The locomotiv... (more)

CP train #290 led by a clean and newer leader CP 9358, has no problem executing the 40 mile per hour track speed as it shoots through the small station of Hazel passing the large CHS Northwest Gra... (more)

The Empire Builder makes up good time lost during the night around Fargo by shortening the St. Paul station stop. From St. Paul to Chicago the train would not do any worse than a few min... (more)

The Empire Builder glides down short line hill into the Mississippi River Valley with 140 & 124 as power with two BNSF executive coached attached on the end.

CP 290 heads southeast through Karlstad, Minnesota, named for the city of Karlstad in Värmland, Sweden. Karlstad is Minnesota's Moose Capitol, exemplified by the moose design on the city water to... (more)

The headlamps of Amtrak P42DC locomotive #25 illuminate the path ahead as the engineer prepares to throttle up the eastbound Empire Builder through the FO Switch down the Hillsboro subdivis... (more)

A southbound manifest enters the city limits of Fargo on a bright day after waiting for a unit grain train northbound at Harwood. The snowpack in NW Minnesota and NE North Dakota is slowly meltin... (more)

Canadian Pacific manifest train #290 travels south through Strandquist, Minnesota, a city with Swedish roots in the northwestern corner of the state. The city was once an important location along... (more)

Remote unit #2753 works the mill job in the North Dakota Mill yard. Its cut of cars have been sorted into their respective tracks and is now in the process of receiving cars to take back to the y... (more)

Former Leaders of Their Respective Fields An old but nicely restored green Oliver model 77 has a face off with another green machine, a former BN SD40-2 now in possession by the No... (more)

The resident snow plows in Thief River Falls saw action the previous night clearing crossing and sections of track where wind has blown the massive amount of snow received in the area, evident eve... (more)

Thief River Falls will always be Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie territory no matter what rebuilding and repainting programs Canadian Pacific has planned. These two SOO Line GP38-2's idl... (more)

A CP Beaver and an EMD product hauling one of CP's daily manifests heads starts the journey down the Detroit Lakes subdivision past the classic Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie depot in d... (more)

Locomotive problems in Minnesota caused the westbound Empire Builder #7 to be delayed resulting in placing a BNSF SD70MAC on point in order to keep the train moving. Here the Empire Bui... (more)

The westbound H-train originating at Galesburg terminating at Grand Forks exits the siding at McIntosh after the passing of an eastbound unit coal train for the Minnesota Power facility at Cohaset... (more)