Bakken oil cans roll southward past the Alton Grain Terminal behind a foreign line SD70.

After waiting at Hillsboro for maintenance crews to clear up ahead, a pair of Canadian visitors rolls south past the giant Alton Grain Terminal on a cold afternoon.

BNSF 8300 and CP 8837 lead the Noyes to Dilworth manifest southward under the overpass and past the pond at Alton.

With a rare visitor in the lead, the Empire Builder heads east out of Hillsboro, ND to get talked over a broken rail near Harwood.

With quite the consist out front, this 14 hour late Empire Builder heads south toward its next stop in Fargo, ND. A locomotive derailed in western Montana yesterday which caused the very large del... (more)

Just a little late, and just a little unusual.

Exagerated by the telephoto effect, the snowfog from the Noyes to Dilworth manifest seems to be engulfing the entire rear of the train, leaving the dome of the Trail County Courthouse, four miles ... (more)

Engineer Lunak gives another friendly wave as he leads a snowy M-NOYDIL past the giant Alton grain terminal.

Even the mighty SP 4449 can't avoid looking like a model train as it races south past the giant Alton grain facility on a mostly cloudy afternoon.

Two rare sights: the Empire Builder in eastern North Dakota in daylight and an H1 unit leading the charge. The weather has been playing hell recently on transportation all across the natio... (more)

EMD fans rejoice! A trio of EMD classics, led by forty year old BNSF 6973, hustles the daily Grand Forks, ND - Northtown, MN high priority manifest south past the grain facility in Alton. How ma... (more)

There are very few places in eastern North Dakota where you can take a photo without including the sky and/or the great expanse of the northern plains, but the Alton Grain Terminal and its massive... (more)

Coal empties roll south past the Alton Grain Terminal and the "fall" colors of the mostly treeless Red River Valley of eastern North Dakota with another all-AC powered lashup. Learn more at more)

Southbound coal empties roll past the giant grain terminal in Alton with an EMD SD70ACe splicing a pair of GE ES44ACs. An all-AC, all-Swoosh'd up lashup like this one was unthinkable on Cohasset ... (more)

BNSF 789 pulls emtpy hoppers down the siding in Alton with an Oakway and a sister BNSFbonnet in tow. Interstate 29 is a pretty boring drive between Grand Forks and Fargo, but the Alton Grain Term... (more)