One of the first CPKC trains I've taken a picture of in the form of the Paynesville Sub wayfreight, westbound near Belgrade, MN, looks identical to a Canadian Pacific train.

CP's St. Paul to Edmonton manifest heads west through Belgrade on a sunny winter afternoon in Minnesota, with an SD70ACU on point.

Now out of slow orders, NS 7300 flies west into Belgrade, where the whole train can be seen.

It's been a while since I've chased a train along Canadian Pacific's Paynesville Subdivision. I stumbled upon this westbound with four locomotives at Belgrade and revisited a few spots that I have... (more)

The train heads throttles up into Belgrade, just passing through the Murray West siding switch.

A pair of CSX AC44s power a unit train on the Paynesville Sub, about to duck under the highway 55 overpass in Belgrade.

After going in the hole behind an oil can for two eastbounds, the office car special gets back on the move westbound from the siding east of Belgrade.

CP train 685 heads west through Belgrade with a bright ACU on point.

The spitfire painted ACU heads west with grain empties on Labor Day weekend. Also to note the SD30C-ECO trailing behind it. The power would be taken off of this train in Glenwood.

Only a few minutes left of sunlight as the train continues west, the SD40-2s are still earning their keep on the work trains.

The pair of SD40-2s continue west as the sun begins to set for the day.

An eastbound priority intermodal train sits on the main at Murray at sunset on a beautiful spring evening a couple of years ago.

Two former Soo Line SD60s power train 498 eastbound across Minnesota on yet another beautiful summer day.

The train pictures have been few and far between for me lately. A couple of GEVOs finding a hole in the clouds near Belgrade was good enough for me to pull over and dust the camera off.

My first evening climb up the Belgrade Co-op elevator of 2015 yields a nice view of an eastbound crude oil train at sunset as it rolls through town and heads for a meet at Murray just east of here... (more)