The Holiday Train accelerates through the rolling countryside of west-central Minnesota about a half an hour away from sunset and its first stop of the evening in Elbow Lake.

The daily Dilworth-Grand Forks manifest is all four-axle power today as it heads past a plowed corn field in the Red River Valley.

A KCS visitor is about to go across the first road crossing in Minnesota after going across the Red River just a few seconds earlier. The locomotive's stay in the state was short lived, however, a... (more)

The daily manifest train from Laurel, MT to Dilworth, MN has a KCS locomotive in the lead as it crosses the Maple River in Mapleton.

Two veteran SD40-2s lead a short vehicle train through a harvested field east of the town of Karnak, whose current population can be counted with one hand.

The second of two westbound unit grain trains running back-to-back enters the siding at Pillsbury to let two higher priority eastbounds pass. Pillsbury is another one of those fascinating North Da... (more)

A unit grain train rumbles west on the former Great Northern transcon, still affectionately referred to by the BNSF dispatchers and crews out here as the "hi-line." The grain elevator and water to... (more)

Two Norfolk Southern locomotives lead a manifest eastbound just south of eerily quiet and dying town of Erie.

The Rolla Local reaches its final destination of the Cando Farmers Grain & Oil Elevator in Cando. It's taken the crew about an hour and a half to travel the 15 miles between here and Churchs Ferry... (more)

The Rolla Local staggers along at 10 mph with 21 cars bound for the elevator in Cando. The cars will come to as a surprise to the elevator's manager, as he was not expecting any new cars to come o... (more)

With the brakeman visible on the ground, the Westhope Local does some work at the Willow City grain elevator. Out of the 5 cars, the local would end up picking up 2 (to bring back to its home term... (more)

Consisting of just two locomotives, the Westhope Local comes up to a cluster of golden Cottonwood trees as it approaches Willow City and the 3-man crew prepares to do some work at the town's grain... (more)

The resident SW1s of the Bottineau Farmers Elevator 110-car shuttle loading complex lounge around on a nice Saturday afternoon during the peak of the grain harvest season in Bottineau.

The GP10 belonging the North Central Grain Coop's 130-car shuttle grain train loading facility in Bisbee rests in the sun on a pleasant fall day in northern North Dakota.

After spending most of the day doing work in nearly every city on the Staples Subdivision west of Wadena, the Wadena Local is nearing its home terminal of Dilworth with a nice mix of 19 cars, incl... (more)