BNSF's southbound Breckenridge Local makes a brief foray into North Dakota before arriving at the yard in Breckenridge, MN. It's utilizing trackage rights on the Red River Valley & Western for the... (more)

The southbound Breckenridge local rolls by the west siding switch at Wolverton on a blustery afternoon in the flat Red River valley of far western Minnesota.

A new plow that was created from SD70MAC 9528 sits in the yard at Dilworth, MN. I'm not sure if it's meant to be self-propelled or needs to be pushed by a separate locomotive, but it certainly loo... (more)

An eastbound BNSF coal train gets underway after a crew change at Dilworth Yard, passing the venerable Northern Grain elevator and a well worn Ford LTD Crown Victoria.

Low winter sun glints off of the sides of a massive North Platte to Valley Park manifest as it negotiates the undulating track profile of the former Omaha Road across northwest Iowa.

The local that runs from St James to the small yard at Elk Creek pauses to work at some of the sidings for the Minnesota Soybean Producers processing plant just north of Brewster, MN.

A former Southern Pacific GP60 leads a local back toward Worthington proper after doing some work at the yard at Elk Creek just north of town.

The Conrail heritage unit works to help put a unit grain train together at the elevator in Brewster, MN alongside the former Chicago, St Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha (a.k.a. the Omaha Road). Appropri... (more)

After enjoying a nice Thanksgiving dinner with family, while everyone else settled in for a nap or some football viewing, I excused myself for an hour or so to see if anything was moving on the Bl... (more)

On the afternoon of Thanksgiving Day, a westbound double empty coal train running 1x2x1 briskly climbs Arlington Hill between Kennard and Arlington, NE. This AC4400CW appears to have been somewhat... (more)

The lights of the aurora borealis and the stars of the northern sky dance overhead as a crossbuck stands guard at a rural grade crossing just east of Delhi, MN.

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).