100 cars of grain bound for River Gate, OR, drops thru the valley over the James River west of Kensal. This heavy westbound train is around 66 miles from Harvey. In a 1x1 setup, this grain train ... (more)

The Carrington based local H66 is pulled south on the north-south RRVW line to wait for the passing of a westbound #363 grain train. The DP of the grain is seen to the left as the conductor waits ... (more)

A lone Dash 9 shoves on the back of this loaded grain out of Alberta, MN, that is westbound on the Jamestown Sub. The train is crossing the massive bridge over the Sheyenne River at Valley City. T... (more)

An empty grain is about 38 miles from Mandan Yard as they pass between switches at Dengate near sunset. This is a Tacoma, WA, to Eldridge, ND, grain empty. Dengate is located on the Dickinson Sub ... (more)

It's a perfect autumn sunset as an eastbound local rolls across the Gassman Coulee trestle in the last light of the day.

The sun is rapidly setting on the Gassman Coulee trestle as a quartet of GEs hustles a stack train eastward into Minot.

Due to a freight derailment on the east side of Williston, Amtrak was forced to bus passengers between there and Minot. When eastbound #8 was turned to become westbound #7, however, both Amtrak lo... (more)

Free of freight interference due to a derailment east of Williston, an overpowered local rockets westward through Trenton trying to stay ahead of an Amtrak train that has just been turned at Willi... (more)

It's just after sunrise as a frac sand train rolls southward from Snowden, MT, on the Sidney line. The head end of the train has entered North Dakota, while the tail end remains in Montana.

Happy Friday the 13th. After making a setout on the industry track, an eastbound roadswitcher out of Williston was impacted by the setout rolling back out onto main 2 due to a lack of hand brakes.... (more)

A Cenex Harvest States (CHS) subsidiary South Central Grain switcher sits on the elevator track adjacent to the DMVW main line at Napoleon. With South Central Grain having operations at Napoleon,... (more)

After the CP-BNSF transfer clears out of the way, a loaded BNSF frac sand train accelerates westward past the Minot Amtrak station.

A nearly matching pair of east-coasters sticks its nose out under a Minot pedestrian bridge as it sorts out a string of autoracks.

Having just exited the BNSF line at the diamond, a former Soo Line SD60 is on the point of the CP-BNSF transfer as it reverses eastward around the S-curve near the Amtrak station in Minot.

A westbound vehicle train crawls under the western pedestrian overpass in Minot behind a trio of eastern visitors.