The St. Paul Transfer has just started up Short Line Hill yet they've already gained quite a bit of height as the tracks were once level with the road on the right. They'll continue up the hill p... (more)

SOO 6062 and CP 6220 (a newly repainted SD60) make history as they lead the very first windmill train over the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern line in southern Minnesota. The bases arrived in Wolse... (more)

The 170 train is crossing the Maquoketa River just north of Green Island. The crew went to work at Marquette at 12:30 today and will run to Nahant for next crew change.

The CP runs over the CN trackage at Dubuque from Dubuque Jct, to Wood. Here 170 passes the CN Dubuque Local waiting on the BNSF to let them comes across the river to do local work. 170 will be bac... (more)

Train 171, Kansas City, MO, to St. Paul, MN, freight, is arriving Nahant yard limits here at Linwood. This crew went to work at 00:30 at Nahant last night and made an Ottumwa turn in 10 hours, tak... (more)

Train 171, Kansas City, MO, to St. Paul, MN, freight, is crossing the Cedar River here at Columbus. The train will make a quick 3 hour run to Nahant. There the train will get switched out and call... (more)

Train 171, Kansas City, MO, to St. Paul, MN, freight, has just left Ottumwa about 10 miles ago. The train will make a quick 3 hour run to Nahant. There the train will get switched out and called o... (more)

Nearly a week after it began its trip, Train 600, made up of windmill tower bases continue their restricted trip up the Detroit Lakes Sub. From here, it will be taken into Canada and handed off ... (more)

The patrol returns to Bensenville Yard from Schaumburg, with SOO GP38-2 4442 leading, crossing over Irving Park Road in Wood Dale.

In Missouri, (one of my favorite states for rail photography,) it has been my observation, the license plate on a truck may or may not be displayed depending on the age of the truck and the temp... (more)

182 comes off the CP C&M Sub and onto the UP Milwaukee Sub at Shermer for a quick run down the UP to Bryn Mawr where itll get back on the CP and run into Bensenville.

The last days of the Ford Plant were starting to be felt with this train as they only had a handful of cars in tow. The plant would close down within weeks of this shot and the daily run through ... (more)

In idle now, the engineer on this empty Hartley ethanol train prepares the units for dynamics as they drop down hill into Lawer at 40mph. The DM&E and CP have done alot of work on this part of the... (more)

Empty Hartley, IA, ethanol train works west to New Hampton to meet #478. This crew went to work at 04:45 at Dubuque and will handle the train to Mason City, where a new crew will take the train ou... (more)