Another perfect day in Glacier as the Empire Builder crosses over the Two Medicine River.

Grain empties make easy work of a small snow drift as they cruise east for Willmar. The air temperature was -5 degrees but with a fierce 40 mph wind it felt more like -35 with the wind chill. A ... (more)

After a short staircase climb up an old grain elevator, this absolutely fantastic vantage point of eastbound stacks was my reward. The air temperature was -10, but the wind wasn't too bad up here... (more)

RP.net contributor Bryant Kaden grabs a shot of the rear distributed power locomotive on coal empties heading west.

With the big wing pulled back in after cleaning the elevator track, the sun is out and the dozer is back on the move to its home in Fargo.

As the sun starts to sag, the snow plow continues its work west of Stockholm as it heads for Watertown.

Priority merchandise for Galesburg, IL heads out of the mountains close on the tail of Amtrak.

UP coal empties cruise up the grade near the Little Black Thunder loader as another loaded UP train disappears under the highway overpass in the top right corner of the picture.

The spring thaw has arrived in SE North Dakota as a tardy Empire Builder heads from Fargo to Grand Forks. CP had a derailment in Wisconsin yesterday, so there was a healthy delay out of Chicag... (more)

A very rare leader, an unpatched Southern Pacific GE, heads east through the small city of Hamel, MN with a unit crude oil train.

The Pere Marquette arrives in St. Joe to pick up shoppers heading for Chicago and me heading for Minneapolis. What a treat to find this rare leader in such great shape.

A priority intermodal train from Chicago casts some long shadows as it heads west along the North Dakota prairie.

A healthy Breck Local cruises east over Wolverton Creek with a sharp rebuilt EMD in the lead.

Just a bit behind the advertised, the eastbound Empire Builder flies through one of the trademark curves south of Lake City in Maple Springs, MN.

The lines on the frozen river were just incredible this morning as an old Milwaukee Road bandit heads east thru Maple Springs with a train for Kansas City.