RCPE's Mankato to Aurora turn heads west out of New Ulm with a matching 5 pack of SD40-2s, thundering upgrade with over 100 cars.

Two former Soo Line GP9's are living out their days loading grain trains at the large elevator in downtown New Ulm, Minnesota, seen parked on a nice afternoon in September 2017. They've outlasted ... (more)

RCPE's Mankato to Aurora manifest heads west through New Ulm, past the old CNW depot and grain elevators.

A westbound Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern train passes the old elevator and former Chicago & North Western station in downtown New Ulm, MN on a fine spring evening. The CPKC sign in the distance is... (more)

After picking up a few cars at the yard in town, CP's daily eastbound train on the former Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern gets underway toward Mankato, crossing the Cottonwood River. Norfolk Southern ... (more)

A GP38-2 still in Soo Line colors sits in the Canadian Pacific yard in New Ulm on a nice spring afternoon.

I&M Rail Link GP9's 124 and 123 rest in front of the defunct Eagle Roller Mill Company power plant in downtown New Ulm MN.

A ballast train on CP's Tracy Sub slices thru the recently harvested fields in the Minnesota River valley.

Two unique to Canadian Pacific SD30C-ECO locomotives lead the daily Tracy, MN to Chicago manifest over the Cottonwood River just east of New Ulm, MN in May 2018.

A pair of RCPE's finest head over the trestle on the Cottonwood River in New Ulm.

Halloween orange in double takes the form of a pair of pumpkins on the porch steps of the house across from the grain elevator to a handsome pair of SD40-2's leading a 67 car Mankato-Aurora train ... (more)

The Canadian Pacific's local power rests in the yard on a quiet Saturday evening in New Ulm, MN.

A quad set of RCPE SD40-2s thunder through New Ulm on the tri-weekly Mankato, MN to Aurora, SD manifest. The train was making good time on this day, and would make it to Aurora before dark.

A pair of ex Soo Line GP9 high hoods, patched for the I&M Rail Link sleep away in New Ulm MN, a couple blocks away from the mainline

A pair of ex Soo Line GP9 high hoods, patched for the I&M Rail Link sleep away in New Ulm MN, a couple blocks away from the mainline