At sunset, two H1 Dash 9's lug a southbound Northtown to Lincoln manifest up the grade between Marshall and Florence, MN.

After meeting a northbound train at Lorne, a southbound train led by a pair of H1 Dash 9's accelerates through Hanley Falls, MN. The tracks in the foreground are for an elevator that no longer exi... (more)

In some of the last light of the day, CP employs a Russell snowplow to bust through a large drift on the east side of Rosholt, SD.

A well worn SD40-2 leads a westbound tank train across Minnesota in March 2013.

An eastbound train led by six locomotives passes the Paynesville Sub wayfreight on the siding at Brooten on a clear March morning.

A westbound Canadian Pacific train battles a blizzard as it rolls across west central Minnesota in February 2011. This experience made me understand how people have become lost in these kinds of c... (more)

After spending a little time making a pickup from the yard in New Ulm, CPKC's daily Tracy to Chicago manifest crosses the Cottonwood River behind a mix of Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern... (more)

A former Soo Line GP9 sits on one of the tracks at the grain elevator near downtown New Ulm, MN. A sibling, IMRL 123, sat with it for years until it was recently sold. You can still purchase this ... (more)

A Twin Cities & Western train crosses a frozen Sulphur Lake just west of Morton as it heads east on the Minnesota Prairie Line.

In some of the last light of the day and year, a westbound BNSF local with classic EMD power on the point rounds the sweeping curve just east of Sutton, NE.

Some adoring fans exchange greetings with the conductor of BNSF's westbound local as they depart the siding at Grafton. From their interactions with him, my guess is they know him and this was som... (more)

A westbound BNSF local accelerates after a meet at Fairmont, NE. They'll take the siding again at Grafton as they try to get to Hastings to end the last day of 2025.

Classics of the 1980's meet as a pair of Union Pacific SD40's work on the east side of Columbus, NE and a "Minnie Winnie" Winnebago sits nearby.

A Tier 4 SD70ACe leads an eastbound intermodal train past a local working on the siding on the east side of Columbus, NE.

Not long after sunrise on the last day of 2025, a lengthy eastbound stack and manifest train hustles through North Bend, Nebraska as a short signal protects the adjacent siding.