It's always nice when you hear a train coming within five minutes of arriving at a location like this. A loaded coal train with a brand new SD70ACe trailing soars over the frozen Sheyenne River o... (more)

RP.net contributor Mike Vandenberg's brand new Subaru Crosstrek poses next to a frost covered tree as an eastbound BNSF coal train emerges from the fog just east of Casselton.

Thanks to Bryant, we made the choice to hike out onto the lake and use the bridge to our advantage. As the sun starts to sag, a loaded oil train heads east over the two foot thick ice.

An eastbound priority intermodal train quickly crosses the Luverne trestle as I try to figure out how many animals have already been in my spot this winter...

Ice crystals fill the sky and create a sun dog around the setting sun, while DMVW 5439 North rocks and rolls on the early 20th century Soo Line jointed rail after serving the Blue Flint Ethanol Pl... (more)

A pair of SD45s continue to earn their keep on the DMVW. On this day they were pulling a grain shuttle train from Oakes to Hankinson to be handed off to the CP. With relatively warm temperatures... (more)

The wayfreight has setout 14 corn loads for the ethanol facility and pulls a handful of mash and ethanol back towards the main. The Coal Creek Station, owned by Great River Energy, opened in 1981 ... (more)

DMVW 5439 North battles the whipping wind and blowing snow on a bitterly cold Winter afternoon. Wind chills down to -25!

The Northbound wayfreight trundles under Highway 83 on a bone chilling cold day.

Brand new ACe's lead brand new tank cars on a Trenton, ND bound oil empty.

After backing out onto the Devils Lake line and running around the west leg of the wye, three GEs lead CSX-bound grain loads south toward Fargo.

Two Dash 9s kick up the snow as they breeze south through Thompson with a manifest for Northtown Yard.

Kicking up fresh powder from the previous nights' dusting, BNSF 8127 and 8168, both SD60M's, lead a 90 car Ross Turn down the hill into Berthold.

Oil empties roll West up the KO bound for Epping, ND and another refill of Bakken crude, behind a Belle leader that's probably not too used to snow...

Autoracks trot down the KO Sub behind a pair of GE's, passing the Little Prairie Lutheran Church in the thriving metropolis of Simcoe.