A westbound BNSF ballast train of Herzog cars crosses one of the many “prairie pothole” lakes found in the area just east of Cleveland, North Dakota, on the afternoon of September 1, 2018.

Dakota, Missouri Valley & Western EMD SD50F No. 5439 and EMD SD40-3 No. 3134 sit inside the railroad’s compact, but capable, locomotive shop in Bismarck, North Dakota, on August 27, 2018.

Dakota, Missouri Valley & Western EMD SD60F Nos. 5501 and 5544 slowly roll through the yard at Coal Creek Junction, North Dakota, on August 29, 2023. Up on the hill in the background is the DMV&W�... (more)

A Canadian Pacific local arrives in front of the grain elevators lining the tracks at Max, North Dakota, on August 28, 2018. This local works east out of Max on the railroad’s New Town Subdivisi... (more)

Northern Pacific FP7 6510C leads train number 2 near Dickinson North Dakota in 1956. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Dakota, Missouri Valley & Western’s “wayfreight” passes the grain elevators at Garrison, North Dakota, on August 28, 2018. The train is led by DMVW No. 6911, a former Canadian National SD40 ... (more)

NP In ND. Built in 1898, teh Northern Pacific Railway Depot designed by famed architect Cass Gilbert. Passenger train ceased to used this facility in 1970, but it was added to the National ... (more)

Photo by John T. Kennedy, from my collection.

Look ma, no snow. LOL.

Sometime in the late seventies a WB freight is crossing the big trestle west of town. It may have been that blizzard we had one May 15th. Welcome to North Dakota.

Dakota, Missouri Valley & Western’s “Corn Train” rumbles through through a curve approaching the town of Wilton, North Dakota, on the railroad’s Missouri Valley Subdivision on August 29, 2... (more)

A mixture of GE and EMD power leads a lengthy Northtown Yard to Laurel, MT manifest westbound onto the former Northern Pacific Jamestown Subdivision at KO Jct, a few miles west of Casselton, ND.

Westbound coal empties soar above the Sheyenne River valley at Valley City, ND.

A pair of GP35's sandwich an ex-SOO GP9 on this grain train.

Dakota, Missouri Valley & Western’s “Corn Train” rolls through Falkirk, North Dakota, approaching milepost 511 on the railroad’s Missouri Valley Subdivision on August 29, 2018. The train i... (more)