CSX 272 leads a empty 81 car ethanol train past a classic elevator located in the small town of Kasson, MN along US Highway 14 on the first day 2016.

Kick'in a little snow in Kasson. DM&E plow #1005 clears the tracks through Kasson Minnesota.

A pair of EMD's lead either a 633 or 643 west through the town of Kasson, MN on a gorgeous May evening. The The ethanol empties are either bound for Janesville, MN or Aurora, SD. Rail traffic al... (more)

Train 633, ethanol empties with grain fillers on the front end, is seen passing a harvested field inside the city limits of Kasson, MN. The leftover ear of corn and pumpkin helped add an element ... (more)

With Kasson in its rear view mirrors, train 277 is working upgrade and is about to meet its counterpart, the 276, before continuing west to Waseca, MN. Sad to think this may be the last time I sh... (more)

With the late 276 having arrived and the 633 cleared out of the Dodge Center siding, train 277 is underway and is seen here passing the Greeway Co-Op and Kasson water tower. I'm happy I was able ... (more)

Train 277, with a trio of blue and yellows, is seen here holding on the east edge of Kasson due to a late 276 and the Dodge Center siding already being occupied by another westbound in front of th... (more)

Train 277, with its monster lash-up, works west out of Kasson, MN on a gorgeous April evening. Having thought we had missed this power move earlier in the day, we were pleasantly surprised to see... (more)

The daily 276, led by a trio of SD40-2's, rounds the bend in front of the Greenway Co-Op Elevator in Kasson, MN. The DM&E is one of the few remaining Class I railroads (a subsidiary of Canadian P... (more)

A westbound manifest heads past Greenway Coop's Kasson elevator. The elevator just finished an expansion this past fall adding dual 8 ft. by 25 ft. dumping pits, 3 million bushels of additional s... (more)

ICE 4203 is the new unit in town and is now handling the duties of the Rochester local. It is seen here heading west through a frost covered countryside with a cut of boxcars in tow.

After leaving a cut of coil cars in Kasson, which will most likley be delivered to McNeilus Steel by the Rochester local come Monday morning, DME 6359 and a leased unit lead a mostly empty freight... (more)

SOO 2041 leads a local after working in Dodge Center east of Kasson through the snowy, wind-swept farmland en route to Rochester in order to deliver its trailing boxcars down the Seneca Foods bran... (more)

A pair of SD40-2's lead an empty ethanol through small town Minnesota while a pair of photographers in background review their images of the westbound train.

The Rochester local heads east to Rochester after sorting coil cars in the siding in Kasson, MN, seen here underneath the Greenway Co-Op Elevator.