A quiet and foggy Saturday morning finds newly placed Great Northern caboose X-259 (built 1948) sitting on rails beside the city of Bemidji’s Great Northern Depot which was James J. Hill’s las... (more)

The Superior, Wisconsin to Grand Forks, North Dakota manifest crosses the over the frozen Mississippi River narrows between Lake Bemidji and Lake Irvine near downtown Bemidji. This train got off ... (more)

BN 1941 and 1891 at Bemidji in this shot from my collection. With the huge amount of units from NP/GN/CB&Q/SP&S that BN inherited on merger day in 1970 it was a number of years until they all ende... (more)

After a weekend ice storm that resulted in hundreds of vehicles going in the ditch, power outages, and some beautiful scenery... the BNSF M-SUPGFD is the only thing not covered in white on this fr... (more)

Following the blizzard that hit on Decembr 30th, 2010, the first train to roll over the Grand Forks sub was the Manifest from Superior, WI to Grand Forks, ND. The snow varied from spot to spot wi... (more)

A pair of ACes lead this edition of the M-SUPGFD.

Just before I got clouded out for a closer shot, I zoomed out as far as my 300mm would let me to get a shot.

The very last axle of the train is rolling over the MP93 defect detector as the train slows for a joint authority between MP93 and MP95. (For the guy that always asks what the leaders were on DPU... (more)

Busting through the grade crossing after a blizzard cleared out the night before. Video and other photos here.<... (more)

Taken from the shoulder of US HWY 2 near Bemidji.

Rerouted coal loads for Superior, WI roll through Bemidji as they pass the restored Great Northern Depot and the fiarly new Vet memorial. The exhast blurs the part of the dept and the water tower... (more)

Taken from the busy US HWY 2 overpass, two blue geeps take today's Cass Lake Local to the west. This train is leaving Bemidji behind and approaching Wilton within a couple of miles.

A fairly recently painted geep in the latest BNSF livery leaves Bemidji behind as it heads to the west for a meet at Wilton with a grain train with BNSF 5013 on the point.

These two CP geeps have been common power recently on the CP local. The CP has temporarily brought service back to Bemidji delivering pipes for a pipeline project in the area.

The calendar may say spring but you would never know that with the weather today. BNSF 2795 is on the point of this afternoon's Cass Lake local and is heading into the blustery conditions as it h... (more)