An eastbound train is about to pass the Amtrak depot in Staples with less than 20 minutes until sunset

An empty coal train moves slowly across the diamonds in Moorhead as a track inspector (whose truck is on the right) waits to work on them

Going south through central Minnesota

Two SD40-2's lead a double stack train west through central Minnesota

An empty coal train partly in Brainerd and partly in Baxter continues west into the light of a pleasant July evening. Brainerd's tallest building and sole "skyscraper," the North Star Apartment co... (more)

The Rolla Local reaches its final destination of the Cando Farmers Grain & Oil Elevator in Cando. It's taken the crew about an hour and a half to travel the 15 miles between here and Churchs Ferry... (more)

A rerouted M-MINNTW moves past the former Great Northern depot in Granville. Today, the building serves as a section house for BNSF Maintenance of Way.

A short double stack train is lead through central Minnesota with one locomotive

A southbound coal train crosses over a nearly dry creek as it approaches the small town of Cactus.

This is the DPU of a loaded coal train that had to stop on main two near Litchfield on account of the crew working their 12 hour maximum. Look closely, and you'll see the van to pick up the crew a... (more)

Near the dying town of Judson, a loaded coal train bound for Superior, Wisconsin negotiates the first of many S-curves it will see on its way to Mandan, about 20 miles to the east.

After spending some of the day working around Keewatin, the crew of the Kelly Lake Local has moved their train into the yard at Kelly Lake and tied it down for the night. The locomotives will be f... (more)

A unit grain train rumbles west on the former Great Northern transcon, still affectionately referred to by the BNSF dispatchers and crews out here as the "hi-line." The grain elevator and water to... (more)

CSX 8030 leads this train on UP tracks in downtown Dallas

A former warbonnet leads a general merchandise east through Alma. To the left of the train is the Mississippi River, dividing Wisconsin from Minnesota.