NTWLIN with the H1 dash 9 pair heads south into Florence at last light, the virga making for a dramatic sky.

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

A pair of veteran GE products lug a 12K ton NTWLIN manifest towards the Buffalo Ridge area of southwest Minnesota. The evolution of motive power has reached a point that the GE wide-cab is now a ... (more)

MMNAU charges into the sunset with a pack of G&W orange SD40s leading the way. This would be our final shot of our chase that began in Mankato. The sun was gone very quickly after these frames.

The Northtown to Lincoln manifest traverses one of the several long S curves on the Marshall Sub at Florence.

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)

Four SD40-2s power a westbound Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern train through the rich farmland of southwest Minnesota on a beautiful summer evening. The railroad has recently received secondhand GE l... (more)

Westbound RCPE near Florence, Minnesota on its run from Mankato, MN to Aurora, SD.

Finally out of the slow orders, MNAU gains some speed as it heads through the vibrant southwestern Minnesota farmland.

Bathed in some of the last light of a nice spring evening, a heavy southbound BNSF grain train has been working hard for over an hour since leaving Marshall as they climb the hill up to the top of... (more)

Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern's tri-weekly train from the Union Pacific at Mankato, MN to Aurora, SD crosses the Redwood River and climbs toward the Minnesota State Highway 23 and BNSF Marshall Sub... (more)

With plenty of cars on this day, the grade profile of this section of track is exemplified well as the tri-weekly Mankato to Aurora train crawls its way west on the Huron Sub.

After chasing MNAU, we saw this unit train that was tied down on the Huron Sub get a crew and begin to move. They would end up taking the BNSF connection to head south on the Marshall Sub, seen he... (more)

Last light shines on Florence as RCPE MMNAU rounds the bend and heads downhill towards us.

Some recent road construction on adjacent Minnesota State Highway 23 that included replacing a culvert is evident as a southbound BNSF train crosses the same creek on a steel trestle that was buil... (more)