A GEVO and a leased SD40-2 blast through Brooten with a westbound on a warm spring evening.

Exhaust pours out of these two EMD veterans as they race west from Brooten with a short 171 train, while rp.net contributor Jeremiah Rindahl looks on.

A green and silver leaser leads the 171 out of the siding in Brooten after they stopped to set out part of their train here. The rest will be dropped at Sedan since the yard in Glenwood is rather... (more)

Soo Line SD60M 6059 trails a Golden Beaver GE on a westbound through Brooten.

A pair of GEs throttle up as they start up the hill toward Brooten with an eastbound. There's one thing conspicuously absent from this shot that has been in nearly every other train picture I've ... (more)

Train 490, led by four EMDs of various backgrounds and paint schemes, does some switching in Glenwood before departing east for Minneapolis. The locomotive to the left is clearly a former BNSF SD... (more)

The engineer of the H41 wayfreight looks back toward the conductor on the ground in the distance as the 4000 hp at his fingertips eases their train back along the siding in Brooten.

The warmest day of 2011 in Minnesota so far is brightened even further by the appearance of one of CP's former Soo Line SD60Ms leading a great lashup of power east out of Glenwood. Here they're a... (more)

Two of the three SD40-2s that came west on the previous day's 297 head back east from Glenwood with train 170. The horn on the former BN leaser sounded a little sick as they whistled for the one ... (more)

Two Norfolk Southern GEs, one widecab and one standard, lead a BNSF train south out of Willmar on a fine spring afternoon.

Some sunlight finds its way through the clouds onto the flanks of a rainbow consist of three SD40-2s that's leading a westbound around a curve several miles east of Paynesville. They're just start... (more)

Two Warbonnets are in charge of a westbound at Willmar, seen doing some switching at Sioux City Line Jct.

Two Cascade Green SD40-2s soak up some rays as they wait to lead one of the locals that will head west from Willmar this afternoon.

Four SD40-2s wait on the main at Dickinson with eastbound train 290 as the sun peeks through the clouds.

Viewed from a pedestrian overpass, a westbound train with a Warbonnet leader pulls into Willmar off the Wayzata Sub. To the right you can see the yellow front end of rotary BN 972551, which was d... (more)