Eight times each day this train squeezes through the crowded Maeklong Market. This is the end of a commuter rail line from Bangkok that is isolated from the rest of the Thai rail network.

The Rice's Point evening switch waits for a transfer from Superior to shove back into the yard. To the left is the Canadian Pacific Yard, and above that are the grain terminals and ore docks of S... (more)

I count at least 17 locomotives scattered through Pig's Eye Yard in this shot, including the pair of GE's leading the stack train through on the main.

A trio of NS power leads oil loads east on the BNSF past the Dairyland Power Cooperative in Alma, WI. The near constant parade of oil trains on this line is quite remarkable.

Winter just won't give up without a fight this year. A local heads west across the Chippewa River in Eau Claire, WI in heavy snow.

Absolutely worth the hike!

A UP transfer is making its way past Dayton's Bluff in Saint Paul.

The Red Wing switch crew takes advantage of a brief lull in the traffic to run around the yard. The Soo Line engine on track two is stuck between cuts of cars for the ADM mill in town.

Sunrise at Pig's eye yard finds a trio of GPs heading off to work while a freight gets ready to head west from the departure tracks.

It's nice to see remnants of the CNW still rolling around in 2010. This unit made my night. 18 more trains in the next 2 hours was the icing on the cake.

A pair of red Soo Line SD60's are throttling up out of CP Rail's busy Pig's Eye yard in Saint Paul in the early morning sun while three more trains wait to head west on the departure tracks.

An eastbound stack train races past Mississippi River Lock and Dam #4 and the scenic river town of Alma, WI.

Elephant style warbonnets lead a stack train through Alma early in the morning.

The Triple Crown train from Chicago to Minneapolis typically passes through western Wisconsin in the cover of Darkness, but is running late this day as it crosses the Chippewa River on the north s... (more)

A single warbonnet leads the Laurel, MT to Chicago intermodal train east out of Willmar.