Bound for Wisconsin Power & Light's power plant in Columbia, Wisc., a SD70MAC/ACe duo slave through the southern portion of Theodore Roosevelt National Park and approach the small tourist communit... (more)

In the last light of the day, NS 8137 and two cousins lead a load of Bakken oil eastward over a rise between Niles and Churchs Ferry on the recently overhauled Devils Lake route.

A load of frac sand for Stanley, ND, flies westward out of Fargo with run-through power in charge.

It's a hot August afternoon as a single fire damaged Dash 9 leads a string of Bakken oil empties westward past a dead eastbound and between the signals at CP 20 in Mapleton.

The jointed rails creek and moan as a manifest freight creeps northwest out of Fargo under ominous looking skies. Due to extreme congestion of eastbound traffic, this train and others are being st... (more)

A Dash 9 tags along on the rear of crude empties as they creep northwest along the 10 MPH rails of the Prosper Subdivision.

A C4 and a 70Mac crawl past the elevator in the sleepy town of Prosper with a string of crude empties. Built in 1912 as part of Great Northern's Surrey cutoff, the portion of the Prosper Subdivisi... (more)

A set of eastern visitors rests crewless in the old yard on the head end of an empty crude train.

It's a hot Friday afternoon as an eastbound BNSF crude oil train passes across the impressive bridge over the Gassman Coulee, nearing the crew change point at Minot.

An eastbound manifest clears as a westbound grain train rolls past the Minot old yard where crude oil trains are being staged.

Empty crude trains are staged at the old yard on a hot afternoon in Minot.

A late westbound Empire Builder has completed its stop in Minot and accelerates westward onto the Gassman Bridge for the run through the Bakken.

A westbound BNSF empty coal train rolls across the impressive Valley City bridge. The train is headed up by a BNSF SD70MAC, and a CSX AC60CW. In the foreground is the Sheyenne River.

It's been 23 years since the delivery of these SD60Ms, and since then, they've likely made many trips past this former Great Northern depot on the north line through Fargo. Today, in the twilight ... (more)

A pair of run-through motors and a single burned up Dash 9 lead a westbound string of reverse Oreos into Mapleton, about to cross over to the wrong main and pass two eastbounds fresh off of the Su... (more)