A southbound BNSF train passes through the pastoral southwest Minnesota prairie landscape of the Buffalo Ridge between Ruthton and Holland, MN.

A DP brings up the rear end of this Alma empty coal train as they work direction south. This is the Marshall Sub, a BNSF secondary mainline that twist and turn from Willmar, MN, to Sioux City, IA... (more)

The entirety of a southbound manifest is visible as it swings around the big curve just south of Ruthton, MN, and enters one of my favorite areas of the state to watch trains: the Buffalo Ridge.

Oil loads sweep around a curve south of Ruthton along BNSF's Marshall Subdivision behind a Warbonnet and visiting CSX power.

This HDILLIN has just started to pull out of the siding at Ruthton, MN after making a meet with a Westbound. Ruthton is at MP 88 on the Marshall Sub which is 88 miles south, or railroad east, from... (more)

Passing the large wind farm located on Buffalo Ridge south of Ruthton, MN

BNSF train M-LINDIL-18 passes the large wind warm on Buffalo Ridge south of

FURX SD40-2 #8129, leads a KCS SD40-2. a BNSF SD40-2, and CN SD40-2WL past the wind farm on Buffalo Ridge

The Marshall Subdivision, by timetable, is an east - west railroad. Sioux City is on the east end of the sub while Willmar, MN is on the west end. Here this westbound passes the large wind mill ... (more)

The Marshall Sub Local rolls across the Buffalo Ridge in southwest Minnesota

Coal empties heading over the scenic landscape of SW Minnesota and about to meet the local at Ruthton.