Five GEs rush past an old Soo Line crane and CP caboose ("van" I suppose is the proper term for the CP) sitting on the elevator track in Farwell.

A westbound drops down the long ramp between Wendell and Nashua that will bring it into the Bois de Sioux River valley. In just a few more miles it will cross the BNSF's former Great Northern lin... (more)

Shrouded in fog at sunrise, a westbound intermodal train rolls by a small lake on the state land west of Sedan, MN.

The snow is done falling and the sun has come out, so with a couple of westbounds showing on ATCS, I trudged out of the office and headed for home via the tracks. I had no clue what was coming, a... (more)

The mail and the railroad: two things that keep moving no matter what the weather. A westbound CP train heads through town on a windy and snowy day and past a local's mailbox.

Snow has been pretty scarce around here this winter, but the flakes are flying in early March as the H55 wayfreight rolls into Brooten from the west to do some work. Two former Soo Line GP38-2s l... (more)

Foreign power is definitely more common along here than it used to be, mostly thanks to oil trains like this one. Here, a standard cab Dash 9 and relatively new SD70ACe from Norfolk Southern hust... (more)

A lengthy stack train rolls out of Belgrade. After going on duty at 0730, they waited for 4 hours for traffic to clear at University, then took 1 1/2 hours to do their work at Shoreham, and when ... (more)

I think this is the first of the Olympic scheme units I've caught leading a train, seen rounding a curve just east of Brooten. The covered hoppers in the distance are on what remains of the Broot... (more)

A long train of empty crude oil tanks accelerates out of Belgrade on a frigid February morning. The 35 mph winds are blowing the exhaust across the train, causing some neat heat distortion. With... (more)

The conductor of a westbound empty oil train alights to perform a roll-by inspection as an eastbound slowly pulls toward a red signal at Murray East and the sun sinks toward the horizon on a pleas... (more)

A Golden Beaver shoves stacks east near Belgrade. There's not much snow for us this winter.

The fresh paint on a brand new Norfolk Southern SD70ACe gleams in the sun on a clear winter afternoon in western Minnesota. It's leading crude oil empties toward North Dakota on the Canadian Paci... (more)

The new CTC from Glenwood to Hoffman has been turned on. There are still a few kinks to work out, though, as a westbound empty oil train tries to depart Glenwood for the Elbow Lake Sub. They hav... (more)

A westbound is in the hole in the distance at Murray as the DPU of 198 helps a healthy train of stacks toward Minneapolis on a frigid February morning.