As severe storms move across Northwestern Minnesota, I was able to get some lightning action while staying dry. The storms were moving SW-NE and brought some very strong winds. It took many atte... (more)

What a work of art... Greetings from tropical Cass Lake! The other side of this car is equally as impressive. Click on the locomotive number field to see the other side of this car. more)

A sad reminder to Look! Listen! Live! The BNSF 9142 gets some emergency repairs after it struck a SUV a few hours earlier. The accident killed all the vehicle's occupants instant... (more)

It was a tough chase to get ahead of this guy... but I made it. Travel not advised... unless you are in a GE or a die-hard railfan!" Several people have called me crazy for going out in t... (more)

The Minot to Superior Manifest is crawling at 19MPH and the crew was very clear to the dispatcher that this was the fastest they could go because they couldn't see where they were going as the nor... (more)

April 6th, 2008 is a day I will never forget. Half of this crew's battle was just getting out of the cab. The SD60 almost looks like a monster coming out of the great unknown. With a sin... (more)

Sometimes you need to make your own subject. After failing to find any kind of train action, I had to resort to shooting the crossbucks protecting a rural grade crossing west of Cass Lake as the ... (more)

Twenty-four hours before this photo... there wasn't a snow flake on the ground and my nephew and I enjoyed a afternoon at the park in t-shirts. We would receive nearly three feet of snow from the... (more)

As the sun began to set a sliver of light opened up, just enough to give some soft evening light to a bland scene as an outbound Northstar Commuter Train blasts by the half dozen railfans sitting ... (more)

Coal loads meet coal empties as back light provides the exhaust plume to be higlighted. The coal empty snuck up on me... I heard a distinct roar of two more EMD's and looked over my shoulder, sur... (more)

This could be a classic... after derailing two cars and having to stop, a hi-rail truck backed in to assist in getting the train moving again. Foamers, railfans, car knockers, hoggers all mingled... (more)

I couldn't think of a title...Tunnel Vision... or Looking Down the Barrel. Once used to store the railroad's locomotives during the winter season, Cramer Tunnel... (more)

A couple more weeks and these beautiful trains will be running putting on a show for everyone along the CP lines. If you have the opportunity to see these trains, go for it! I'm glad I braved th... (more)

Sometimes you get screwed, sometimes you get lucky... damn lucky! After leaving Cass Lake in darkness, the train hit several slow orders on the Grand Forks Sub and met one at Wilton. The delays ... (more)

It took several days for this shot the develop... first was the snowfall, second was the blowing and drifting, third was the sun, and the fourth and most difficult was having a train! The first t... (more)