After getting the light from the UP dispatcher, Canadian Pacific local H37 slowly rolls through downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota and heads across the Mississippi River on the Roberts Street Lift Bri... (more)

A pair of former Soo Line units are on today's local.

CP H37, the Northfield, crosses the Robert Street Lift Bridge with a pair of former Soo Line SD60s for power.

CP H42, the daily Humboldt Avenue Transfer, crosses the Camden Bridge in northern Minneapolis with a matched pair of ex-SOO SD60s.

Canadian Pacific's St Paul to Kansas City freight 474 pulls into downtown Fruitland before shoving back into the New Yard to set out some cars before continuing onto Ottumwa and then ultimately Ka... (more)

CP 474 with an outstanding lashup of a SD60, 2 SD40s, and a GP20CECO pull into Muscatine. This train will work the New Yard at Muscatine before continuing on towards Ottumwa. It is surely interest... (more)

CP 288 heads east passing the Metra depot at Deerfield with a CP SD60 leading a pair of UP SD40N’s.

Sunday's night B-41 local left Mason City around 2am with a wedge plow and 69 cars for the Sheldon Sub. Multiple derailments of the plow at iced over crossing changed the plans around noon. The pl... (more)

One more from this amazing chase of the B41 local across the Sheldon Sub. The CP Sheldon Sub runs west from Mason City towards Sheldon, IA, in far northwestern Iowa. Normally overnight B41 local r... (more)

It does sometimes take an army of people to get a train across the railroad in the wintertime. The conductor pitches in as these 4 guys clean the switch at Ag Processing Inc. east of Algona. The c... (more)

2019's winter was a tough one for all the railroads in the Midwest. A major storm hit on Saturday February 23rd. The storm dump rain, ice, and snow, followed by blizzard like winds. B41 left out o... (more)

2019's winter in Iowa was a pretty tough one for the railroads, especially in March. Sunday night's Canadian Pacific's B-41 local left Mason City around 2am with a wedge plow and 69 cars. Multiple... (more)

One of the bigger customer on the line west of Mason City is this AGP plant outside of Emmetsburg. This plant has been always a big producer of soybean meal and this railroad (IMRL/ICE/DME/CP) has... (more)

Sunday's night B-41 local left Mason City around 2am with a wedge plow and 69 cars for the Sheldon Sub. Multiple derailments of the plow at iced over crossings changed the plans around noontime. T... (more)

Winter during March got pretty tough on everyone in the Midwest. Sunday night's Canadian Pacific's B-41 local left Mason City around 2am with a wedge plow and 69 cars for the Sheldon Sub. After mu... (more)