The Winona Roadswitcher's powers lays overnight at the Amtrak depot in Winona. Still alot of Soo Line geeps that roam the CP in local service.

This St. Paul, MN, to Kansas City, MO, freight train was called over 4 hours late at St. Paul this morning, and is now over 5-6 hours late as they make their way towards Marquette with a relief cr... (more)

This St. Paul, MN, to Kansas City, MO, freight train was called over 4 hours late at St. Paul this morning. That provided opportunity for light on the west side of the train in the afternoon as th... (more)

The local freight between St. Paul, MN, and La Crosse, WI, is about to River Jct. West, as they turn the last few miles into La Crosse. This job works along the River Sub in towns like Red Wing, L... (more)

The South Itasca, WI, to Wisconsin Rapids, WI, local pulls down the JO siding to hang a right onto the Valley Sub at South JO for the last leg of the trip into Wisconsin Rapids. This job mainly ca... (more)

This Markham Yard, IL, to Roberts Bank Terminal, BC, Intermodal train works north from Stevens Point on a snowy Thursday morning. There train is passing thru the north end of JO siding which is ab... (more)

The Bradley, WI, to Fond Du Lac, WI, local freight makes its way down the Valley Sub near Dancy. This monster 165 car train is heading to Wisconsin Rapids instead east towards Point due to all the... (more)

A loaded ethanol train off the DM&E terrritory, has a new CP crew onboard and now pulls down to Tower CK to get on the River Sub for the trip towards Chicago. The train swaps crew at Goodview betw... (more)

A westbound empty ethanol train from the NS at Chicago, heads out of the Mississippi River Valley west of Minnesota City, enroute to western Minnesota or eastern South Dakota ethanol plant. Here t... (more)

The CN Whitehall Sub has 2 locals based out of Taylor that work between Wisconsin Rapids and East Winona. The main customers is the booming business of frac sand mining plants along the route, and... (more)

The west local out of Taylor is heading back east after turning at Arcadia today. Here the crew picks up cars at Whitehall and poses nicely in front of this restored 1914 ex-Green Bay Western Depo... (more)

The St. Paul, MN, to Chicago, IL, Z-train, old BN train #42, makes it way down the Aurora Sub near the Charm Detector on the north side of Priaire Du Chien.

The last rays of sunshine light up this eastbound coal train near Westside in western Iowa. This train is working upgrade towards to Iowa Divide at Arcadia.

Southbound UP freight train is in the siding at Buckeye to meet a northbound train out of Nevada. The CNW Dash 9 and 2 ex-CNW SD40-2's for power.

A westbound Z-train is about to blast thru Priaire Du Chien on a snowy January day. The BN 3516 was renumbered to the BNSF 3015 in September 1999. These series of unit were originally ex-CB&Q GP 4... (more)