The heaviest snowfall of the winter is tapering off as an eastbound charges down the CP mainline through Brooten.

A unit tank train behind a single GE appears out of the fog east of Hoffman.

An eastbound makes its way toward Hoffman for a meet on a foggy and frosty winter day. This is the same location as this spectacular ... (more)

A new GEVO has accumulated a little snow on its nose as it hustles east across Minnesota on a clear and cold February morning.

CP 8888 leads priority stacks east toward Minneapolis, seen just west of Belgrade.

A nice all EMD lashup leads an eastbound through Belgrade, seen from the overpass on the east side of town.

It took until nearly the end of February, but I finally got a shot of a train in a snowstorm in 2012. A CEFX leaser, another AC4400, and a GP38-2 lead a westbound past the block signal in Brooten... (more)

CP 6240, a rebuilt SD60, trails in the consist of a Winnipeg-bound train as it rolls into Brooten.

The well-worn leader on this eastbound looks especially dingy when paired with a fairly new GEVO. Let's hope the newer unit still looks good in a few years.

A new GEVO leads three older cousins on an eastbound CP train as it nears Paynesville, MN.

A trio of former BN Geeps lead the westbound Watertown local across a wooden trestle west of Louisburg, MN.

The setting sun catches the flanks of a trio of veteran EMDs. This set of power has been assigned to the Watertown Local for a while now. Railroad: BNSF Railway
Locomotive: EMD GP28P
Location: Willmar, Minnesota, USA
Locomotive #: BNSF 1544
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: February 12, 2012

A TEC (track evaluation car) train is eastbound out of Glenwood, MN not long after sunrise on a nice winter day, seen here between Brooten and Belgrade.

It's a foggy winter morning in central Minnesota as an eclectic mix of power leads a CP train east through Brooten.

After meeting train 299 at Paynesville, an eastbound continues toward St Paul behind four EMDs. The fourth unit is CP 6228, one of their recently rebuilt and repainted SD60s.