After securing permission from the owner who was on site, I climbed the stairs to the top of the grain bins in downtown Belview, MN to get a great view of an eastbound Twin Cities & Western train ... (more)

After picking up some empty cars from the new fertilizer facility on the west side of town, a Twin Cities & Western train is headed back east on the former Minneapolis & St Louis Railway at Echo, ... (more)

A Twin Cities & Western train trundles westbound along the Minnesota Prairie Line just east of Echo, MN.

A southbound BNSF train is getting underway out of Willmar, MN on the Marshall Subdivision behind five GE's lined up "elephant style" (nose to tail).

Several EMD locomotives, including one still in Santa Fe colors, rest on the servicing tracks in Willmar, MN on a clear autumn day.

On the evening of the same September 2015 day as the previous photo, some visiting Norfolk Southern power, including a former Conrail SD60I, is also sitting in Tracy, MN with a westbound train.

A mix of Canadian Pacific and Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern power is tied down on the point of an eastbound at Tracy, MN back in September 2015.

A westbound Twin Cities & Western train approaches the Minnesota State Highway 23 overpass east of Granite Falls, MN. They'll stop just ahead to deliver their entire train of empty tank cars and d... (more)

A brand new U.S. Army switcher sits alongside the BNSF's Marshall Subdivision in Granite Falls, MN. SpecSys, Inc. manufactured it in their Granite Falls plant and delivered it here from just a few... (more)

A westbound Twin Cities & Western train hustles through the small town of Sacred Heart, MN on the former Milwaukee Road "Pacific Extension" mainline.

Ending over a decade of relying exclusively on EMD products for power, the Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern has recently received several hand me down Dash 9's. While the BNSF heritage of these locomo... (more)

I suppose a pair of H2 Dash 9's and an SD40-2 is a bit of a throwback lashup these days. They're seen leading a southbound train on the Marshall Subdivision with Minnesota State Highway 23 alongsi... (more)

An eastbound Twin Cities & Western train operating over the Minnesota Prairie Line crosses the new (as of 2022) Crow Creek bridge as it meanders through the Minnesota River valley between North Re... (more)

The BNSF's local that runs from Moorhead to the Red River Valley & Western at Breckenridge heads back north at Brushvale as a late afternoon pop up thunderstorm dumps some rain in the distance. Th... (more)

The news that the Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern is in the process of acquiring secondhand GE locomotives as replacements for a portion of their aging fleet of SD40-2s has created even more interest... (more)