A pair of Canadian Pacific GE's lead loaded oil train 580 as it swings around the bend on to the bridge over the frozen Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota on the Paynesville Subdivision. ... (more)

Working its way toward Minneapolis with some grain loads from North Redwood, an eastbound train crosses Sulphur Lake near the former Minneapolis & St Louis Railway division point of Morton, MN. It... (more)

The TCW St. Paul turn heads over the Robert Street bridge with a whopping 3 cars to boot.

A pair of Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern SD40-2's lead the M MNAU as it passes through Cobden, Minnesota and crosses the bridge over Route 14 on the CP Tracy Subdivision. Utilizing trackage rights o... (more)

With a load of steaming taconite pellets fresh from the Fairlane Taconite plant in tow, a pair of SD40T-3's and a C40-8 hustle U717 across the Cloquet River in Burnett, Minnesota and head towards ... (more)

A pair of GE's power CN intermodal Q199 as it cruises across the Oliver Bridges and crosses the state line into New Duluth, Minnesota as it heads towards the climb up Steelton Hill. After crossing... (more)

Over under pass at Munger Minnesota - This was close to a three second/3 car difference to perfect. Under was a CN Intermodal and over was CN mixed freight.

CP 7056 leads train 240 across the Red Lake River in Thief River Falls with extra grain traffic, CPKC 346, along for the ride down the Detroit Lakes Subdivision mainline.

The UP-CP transfer departs State Street as they head out to Dunn with their delivery for CP St. Paul Yard. The critter third out is RSSX 103, a Railserve LEAF destined for Canpotex in Saskatchewan... (more)

Frack sand hoppers in tow on the Skally Line. The St. Scroix Valley operates on one of three short sections of the Northern Pacific's Skally Line. The other two: one small stretch in Minneapolis; ... (more)

A couple autumns ago, BNSF's Lincoln to Northtown manifest crosses Washington Creek in Dassel, trailing 3rd is a GP7, NPR 1752.

Illinois Central 6256, an SD40-3 is shoving a loaded taconite pellet train onto the 1918-built Dock 6. This locomotive was built by GM Electro-Motive Division in LaGrange, Illinois in November 197... (more)

CP 7020, one of five military units, leads CPKC train 243 over the Crow River in Rockford, with an NS dash 9 along for the ride as well. Down below, some local fisherman try their luck. Since Memo... (more)

After landing at Minneapolis-Saint Paul we drove directly to Duluth to see what would be running for the afternoon. A friend told us that there was an empty ore train coming off Dock 6, and we wer... (more)

When I heard the CP’s Waseca Local blowing for the at-grade street crossings in Rochester I dropped everything and took up the chase. However chasing the eastbound local involves crossing throug... (more)