Exhaust condenses in the frigid air above two DMVW SD50Fs as they make quick work of lifting 50 coal empties out of the James River valley. This train runs between a mine north of Bismarck and a ... (more)

A perfect matched pair of thirty year old SD50Fs fly out of a frosty winter landscape near Cleveland, North Dakota with coal empties from Spiritwood

With the bank of LEDs leading the way, a rebuilt snow dozer out of Fargo sweeps through Larimore behind a pair of GEs. The roads were less than ideal so chasing these guys as they made track speed... (more)

An eastbound Burlington Northern coal train led by new EMD SD60M No. 9264 passes milepost 182 and the old grain elevators at Menoken, North Dakota, on August 8, 1991.

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.

The thunderous roar of two EMD 16-645E3's fills the cold Winter air as engineer RD Albrightson notches his two SD40-2's out to keep the 23 loads of charcoal, grain, oats and propane at the posted ... (more)

When I made a trip to North Dakota to shoot the Northern Coal Route, this route was just starting to change over to the AC-DP coal trains. For many years DC power will the strong hold for this rou... (more)

An empty grain train pulls into the siding to meet a coal train at Medina. Medina is located on the Jamestown Sub 80 miles east of Mandan. The Jamestown Sub runs 176 miles between Mandan and KO Jc... (more)

AC power was just starting to become common on this northern coal route thru North Dakota between Glendive and Dilworth. Here 2 MAC's power this westbound hopper train about 29 miles west of Manda... (more)

A BNSF grain train crosses above the Sheyenne River Valley and the town of Valley City on the former Northern Pacific Hi-Line Bridge, completed in 1908.

CP's executive train eastbound at rural Annamoose, North Dakota.

CP 4107 skirts the lake at Kenmare, North Dakota, with a special train bound for the Ryder Cup in Minnesota.

Canadian Pacific's A-B-A executive Fs broadside between Balfour and Drake, North Dakota. This was the former Soo Line main between Minneapolis and the Canadian border at Portal, ND.

The westbound Empire Builder is running about an hour and a half late into Williston after being delayed by two hours earlier in the morning at Emerado, ND, due to striking an individual st... (more)

A farmer works his field as a five-pack of GEs zips an intermodal train westward toward Williston.