Traffic jams are common at Rocky Run if Stevens Point get packed full of trains. Here a Q116 and L520 tuck away in the siding to meet the L501 local and a Q197. Rocky Run hasn't been in service fo... (more)

The south signals at Rocky Run gleam a red beam out into the night air as heavy snow comes down. Rocky Run is the 1st siding north of Stevens Point on the Superior Sub.

A very late Salamanca to Buffalo Turn job works back to Salamanca and points south. This is normally a night time operations, but heavy delays in Buffalo has the train running in the morning light... (more)

Westbound Chicago, IL, to St. Paul, MN, intermodal train blast pass the CTC signal for West Chana. The train will zip across northern Illinois in short fashion with this small train. Chana is loca... (more)

A Lawler Ethanol Train pulls out of the plant at MP 63 at the Mason City with a pair of unlikely units for an ethanol train. I would guess these 2 GEVO's came off the KCS at Kansas City on a empty... (more)

470 and 471 crews have swapped trains at Ossian and here 470 takes off for east as the engineers rolls up his track warrant so 471 can get out the west end of the siding to head towards Mason City... (more)

The Huron, SD, to BRC Clearing Yard in Chicago, IL, freight train has these ponies in notch 8 as they work up the 1% grade leaving Lawler. There is not much for snow from the latest snow storm, bu... (more)

An empty KCS grain train #361 pulls to the west end of the New Hampton Siding as 470 pounds upgrade into New Hampton for the meet. There is only 2 sidings on the 117 miles long Mason City Sub betw... (more)

471 is passing MP 63 and passing the power for an outbound 634 Lawler Ethanol Train. There is an crew enroute from Mason City to take the train east to Marquette behind 471 and ahead of 578 who is... (more)

Heavy large snow flakes are falling on the back side of the Winter Storm Q, as this 471 rolls thru west towards Mason City with a short train. This train came out of the BRC Clearing Yard in Chica... (more)

Snow in Iowa has become somewhat a rare event in past 2 winters. Here 470's crew wheel slips thru the snow as they try to pull this tonnage up the 1.4% grade west of Calmar. The engineer has back ... (more)

The Ladysmith, WI, to Stevens Point, WI, and back local pulls into the siding at the north end of Rocky Run to meet a couple northbound trains out of Stevens Point. This is new business for CN tha... (more)

The Taylor, WI, to Fond Du Lac, WI, local pulls out of the yard at Stevens Point for the short trip to Fond Du Lac. Here the train passes thru the CTC Hoover control point at the east end of the y... (more)

As freezing rain and sheet comes down, and eastbound freight train is about to pass thru Genoa. The Aurora Sub between Savanna and La Crosse is mainly protected by an ABS signal system. It is a co... (more)

The 195 miles Altoona Sub is protected by an ABS signal system. When nothing is around all the signals show clear across the system. Here at the west end of the Valley siding the eastbound signal ... (more)