A short local heads east through the trees past a field full of snowmobile tracks.

An eastbound crosses the trestle a few miles east of Paynesville on a blustery autumn afternoon.

An old Soo Line caboose brings up the rear of a rail train as it heads into Paynesville for the evening, having spent the day picking up rail along the line between here and Brooten. Rounding the... (more)

Heading into a beautiful fall sunset, a westbound rounds a curve west of Paynesville.

Freight from St. Paul passes over the North Fork of the Crow River on a very hot summer day.

A westbound rounds a curve east of Paynesville as it nears town and a meet with an eastbound.

It would have been nice if the good engineer of this eastbound could have been just a bit more enthusiastic. ;-)

A westbound crosses the steel trestle east of Paynesville. Click here to see the same train later in the day west of Glenwood, as c... (more)

A westbound prepares to depart the siding in Paynesville after meeting two eastbounds. The tail end of the second can be seen in the distance.

Ursa Major, meet Soo 6062. The last SD60M built for the Soo Line heads up a train of leased power at Paynesville, under the Big Dipper.

A westbound crosses the stream that connects Rice Lake (in the background) with Mud Lake, a few miles east of Paynesville.

Unit from the first batch of CP ES44s leads a lease unit down the main at Paynesville with a loaded pipe train bound for interchange with the Union Pacific at St. Paul.

CP 8713 with a run-through pipe train bound for the Union Pacific at St. Paul.

Minnesota railroading at its best. A thin layer of frost covers most of CP 8577, waiting to meet a westbound train at Paynesville. Thankfully, the sidewall heaters worked very well on this locomo... (more)

Heavy fog and frost cover the landscape at Paynesville, as CP 8577 waits for a westbound to take the siding.