There are very few places in eastern North Dakota where you can take a photo without including the sky and/or the great expanse of the northern plains, but the Alton Grain Terminal and its massive... (more)

Old Glory flaps as Ardoch Coal empties slice through kicked up harvest season dust and split the silence on a lazy Friday afternoon in Buxton. BNSF 9530 is interesting in the fact that it's one o... (more)

BNSF 8274 and BNSF 8118 pull 105 cars westbound out of the Red River Valley and around the curve entering Larimore.

First generation EMD widecabs lead the tri-weekly Superior, WI - Minot, ND manifest west on a beautiful fall day.

A Cohasset coal empty with a mix of AC/DC power crosses the Red River of the North and comes into Grand Forks on a pleasant fall evening.

A trio of EMD power leads the daily Northtown, MN - Grand Forks, ND manifest through downtown Fargo, ND with a former BN workhorse on the point.

A lone SD70ACe fronts an empty coal train as it makes its way west back to the mines. The crane on the left is a remnant of a large MoW project that replaced the diamonds at the busy Moorhead JCT... (more)

The daily Dilworth - Grand Forks manifest leaves its namesake yard with a trio of 4-axle power providing the horses.

A newer ES44AC is on the tail end of a string of COLX coal hoppers as it pushes eastbound into the Dilworth Yard.

BNSF 5640, which will be detached in a few miles in the Dilworth Yard, brings up the rear of this eastbound loaded coal train as it enters into downtown Moorhead, MN. This is the first coal train... (more)

A Z-train streaks west out of downtown Moorhead, MN and onto the bridge over the Red River of the North which brings it into Fargo, ND. More info at Railroad: BNSF Railway
Locomotive: GE ES44DC
Location: Fargo, North Dakota, USA
Locomotive #: BNSF 7407
Train ID: Z-CHCPTL
Photo Date: September 20, 2008

Coal empties roll south past the Alton Grain Terminal and the "fall" colors of the mostly treeless Red River Valley of eastern North Dakota with another all-AC powered lashup. Learn more at more)

Southbound coal empties roll past the giant grain terminal in Alton with an EMD SD70ACe splicing a pair of GE ES44ACs. An all-AC, all-Swoosh'd up lashup like this one was unthinkable on Cohasset ... (more)

BNSF 789 pulls emtpy hoppers down the siding in Alton with an Oakway and a sister BNSFbonnet in tow. Interstate 29 is a pretty boring drive between Grand Forks and Fargo, but the Alton Grain Term... (more)

Ex-Burlington Northern icons in the form of a SD60M and a SD40-2 bring the daily Grand Forks, ND - Northtown, MN high priority merchandise train south into Thompson. This was a rare day in that I... (more)