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)

With the green leaves hanging on later than normal this year, this stack train injects a bit of color into a cool fall morning.

The daily east bound stack train is about to take down the signal at Duplainville.

A short manifest heads out of CP's St. Paul yard past hotshot 198 on a perfect Father's Day morning.

As the sun sets on National Train Day 2013, Canadian Pacific's Vancouver to Chicago hotshot rolls through Belgrade, Minnesota, passing a maintenance of way caboose stored on the adjacent siding.

Fellow train chaser Bryant Kaden grabs his shot of an eastbound hotshot at it cools its wheels at Murray.

I certainly wasn't sad to see the winter of 2012-2013 give way to spring, but at least the last sunset of the season allowed for a glint shot of 198 nearing Paynesville.

A perfect illustration of why I like it when we get snow: white snow, red locomotives, blue skies. What's not to love?

With over a mile of colorful double stack containers in tow, this pair of GEs is easily keeping track speed as they sweep out of Barrett.

Train 198 is doing every bit of the 60 mph speed limit for expedited trains through here as they approach the H41 wayfreight tucked safely in the siding at Murray. The wayfreight is sporting a ni... (more)

A DPU brings up the rear of a lengthy 198 as it hustles by a westbound in the siding at Murray. The lead unit was a nice 8900 series locomotive and its bright red paint is visible over a mile and... (more)

Not long after sunrise, a lengthy stack train blasts through Brooten.

A single GE on the point and another as a DPU on the rear have over 7700 feet of stacks moving pretty good just east of Sedan on a nice spring day.

The H41 wayfreight is waiting on the siding in Brooten for a couple of eastbounds out of Glenwood to pass before they get back to work. The crew took the opportunity to get some refreshment from ... (more)

A long double stack train from British Columbia crosses the Pomme de Terre River in Barrett as it heads for Glenwood. The engineer had the window of this new unit wide open...and why not on a 70 ... (more)