Running a tad early, the Superior - Minot manifest slices westbound into Fisher behind power one would expect to see in the coal pool. Thanks to more)

BNSF 8258 and BNSF 8115 lead the Superior, WI - Minot, ND manifest west across the Red River of the North and into North Dakota. Check out the father and son on the other side of the river watchi... (more)

Grain empties behind a relatively clean Dash 9 roll south through Merrifield as I get a nice wave from Engineer Lunak. Looks like they fixed the broken Station Sign since the wind event the other... (more)

The Superior, WI - Minot, ND manifest is a few hours late this beautiful Friday evening as it races against time before the eastbound Empire Builder will force it into the hole somewhere al... (more)

BNSF 7581 slowly creeps north with the daily Northtown - Grand Forks manifest. He's got about a mile and 126 cars to go before clearing track warrant 516-88, one of the final few track warrants i... (more)

The daily Grand Forks - Belt Railway high priority manifest departs the yard and hits the east leg of the wye for the Hillsboro Sub.

After picking up two CSX units in the yard, loaded grain departs Grand Forks westbound. This train will take the hole in Emerado to meet two eastbound stack re-routes before continuing west.

Loaded grain from Crookston, MN rounds the bend westbound toward the bridge over the Red River of the North.

A fairly new BNSF ACe leads empty Clay Boswell coal across western Minnesota elephant-style with a pair of older generation coal power. Note sure what's up with the weird green paint on the MAC t... (more)

A westbound Z-train runs "The Guantlet," Fargo-Moorhead's new whistle free zone right through the downtowns of both cities. The last time I caught the 5240, it was struggling to climb out of the ... (more)

Cohasset coal empties sit crewless on the coal connector between the Hillsboro Sub (Dakota JCT) and the Prosper Sub. It's nice to catch SD60Ms still in the coal pool since they're being booted fr... (more)

BNSF 7767 clatters westbound over the diamond at Moorhead JCT with a CSX - Pasco manifest. Without doubt, Moorhead JCT is the best spot in the Fargo-Moorhead area to see non-stop action.

A pair of MACs lead COLX hoppers west back to the mines for another load. Looks like BNSF 8910 is in dire need of a fresh coat of paint...that pinkish peach color that it's morphed in to just isn... (more)

An Oakway leads a manifest east down into the Red River Valley. The last two units are FURX SD40-2s which were dead in town; I'm guessing the lease has expired on them and they're heading back to... (more)

A new KCS Southern Belle ACe pulls out of the BNSF Grand Forks Yard fronting the daily Grand Forks - Northtown high priority manifest. If this train hadn't been running several hours late, ... (more)