After finishing work at the sugar beet plant in Renville, the Ruebel turn heads east to Glencoe. The water in this ditch provided a reflection shot.

TCW's Ruebel Turn heads east over a creek outside of Hector.

The westbound TC&W Ruebel Turn traverses the flat, featureless farmland between Bird Island and Olivia, MN on the former Milwaukee Road mainline.

The Ruebel Turn is on its way back east after a trip to Sacred Heart to drop off some coal empties and pick up the West End train. Four locomotives and three covered hoppers catch the setting sun... (more)

The Ruebel Turn has brought a cut of empty coal hoppers from the sugar beet plant at Ruebel and is shoving them onto the siding at Sacred Heart. Once the entire train has been emptied and reassem... (more)

The setting sun cuts through plenty of ice crystals in the air thanks to a fierce northwest wind and subzero windchill values. After dropping a cut of coal empties on the siding at Sacred Heart, ... (more)

Bathed in perfect winter light, the Ruebel Turn has a cut of empty coal hoppers from the sugar beet plant at Ruebel in tow as they head west from Renville toward Sacred Heart.

The Ruebel Turn is working on one of the coldest days of 2016 so far, spotting a cut of cars at the sugar beet plant near Renville. The head end power is in sunshine as they pass the power for th... (more)

Thanks to the first "polar vortex" of 2016, fierce winds and a dusting of fresh snow the night before created a few drifts for the westbound Ruebel Turn to negotiate, such as this one be... (more)

The sun has set some minutes ago, but there's still light in the western sky and a little glint on the flanks of the TCWR 4302. The Ruebel Turn has finished its work for the day at the sugar beet... (more)

A GP20C, a GP30C, and a GP15C haul the Ruebel Turn the last few miles toward the sugar beet plant near Renville on an unseasonably warm December afternoon.

On a beautiful November afternoon, the westbound Ruebel Turn passes the large elevator at Stewart, another small town along the former Milwaukee Road mainline west of Minneapolis.

The sun has set moments ago, but railroading continues as the TC&W's Ruebel Turn pauses to make its crew change at the sugar beet processing facility near Renville. The new crew will finish the w... (more)

The Milwaukee Road Danube depot has been preserved in a park not far from the mainline where it once stood. The Twin Cities & Western is the current owner and operator of the tracks and their Rue... (more)

This curve east of Buffalo Lake is pretty much the scenic highlight of the TC&W through here, but two RRVW locomotives in their older paint scheme look nice pulling the Ruebel Turn westbound on th... (more)