Chicago Terminals leased SW8 sits awaiting its crew and a UPY GP15-1 idles away waiting for its crew as well in UP's North Avenue Yard

The sunflower processing facility owned by CHS Northwest Grain in Hazel, MN now has two pieces of switch power: the original #1 now repainted in CHS white and blue and ILSX 924. Does it look lik... (more)

In and amongst mostly cloudy weather, Christmas Eve morning 2011 has some pleasant sunshine shining on one of the trio of ex-KCS locomotives sitting on the old Great Northern wye that led to the G... (more)

Tunnel motor #1343 leads the Warroad local back to Crookston via trackage rights on the CP from Dakota Junction to Erskine, then on BNSF from Erskine and west.

Minnesota Northern's ILSX 1343 waits for its crew on its rails at Dakota Junction with a cut of grain hoppers and boxcars bound for the businesses at the end of line at St. Hilaire, MN (MNN Warroa... (more)

Expecting a cut of boxcars headed for St. Hilaire behind this locomotive, 1343 sits alone at Dakota Junction. This locomotive has been a recent regular on the MNN Warroad Subdivision. Photo from... (more)

Former UPY 1195 and a battered elevator unit are inside Minnesota Northern's shop in Crookston. Photo taken with permission. Date not disclosed for privacy reasons.

Ex-BNSF 3437, nee Frisco 352, sold in July 2007

During a day of sporadic rain storms, a rainbow popped up east of Thief River Falls providing a nice backdrop for the resident switching power for the Farmers Co-Op Grain & Seed elevator, now comp... (more)

Old, meet new. Former UP 2906 is now part of Minnesota Northern's fleet of power and is preparing the Warroad Local as old timers MNN 1383, ILSX 1381, and MNN 1380 look on.

The two newcomers to the Minnesota Northern switching fleet roll back toward the yard along the south leg of the wye with a set of cars just collected off of the Ada Subdivision. ILSX 924 was prev... (more)

In addition to the Independent Locomotive Service's eclectic fleet of locomotives, ILSX 1343, a snoot-nose SD40-2 tunnel motor, just got added into the mix. This former Union Pacific locomotive a... (more)

A Red River Valley & Western local job heads down the siding as a loaded BNSF grain train heads west.

The Red River Valley & Western Hankinson Turn has taken the siding in Campbell to meet a westbound BNSF grain train and wait to receive their warrant onto the Canadian Pacific several miles ahead.... (more)

The Prairie Lakes Coop switcher used to load grain shuttle trains rests on a perfect fall morning.