Nipping at 171's heels was 809, coal empties heading back to Wyoming. They sure had the order right on this consist!

With fertilizer traffic on the rise, UP has been kept quite busy moving cars between their yard and industries on the other end of town. At 18:40 Job 01 trots back to the yard with a cut of hopper... (more)

Almost impossible to do! Catch a train in town, with good light, at 18:45. Soo 6038 pops into a sunny patch for only a second, as he guides train 281 up the River.

The Northtown to Galesburg manifest wastes no time taking single track after meeting westbound NSINTW at Winona Junction. Todays train had a real mix of power consisting of BNSF 8300, 641, NS 2548... (more)

Train #637 crawls through downtown Lewiston on a sunny March afternoon behind a great pair of blue and yellows.

Again?! Another nicely matched pair of SD45 bodied leasers, escort train #170 down the River Sub on a chilly (-11 degrees) February morning.

With the conductor copying more track from DM&E Operations, train #277 screams thru downtown Eyota behind a very awesome 50/50 lash-up.

No leasers... no red units... just the way things should be! A spectacular 4-pack of blue and yellows escort a massive 271 up the River Sub on a beautiful Wednesday afternoon. After getting this s... (more)

The latest railroad for the CN to ruin makes an appearance in East Dubuque on the CN local. EJ&E 664 and 667 return from the ammonia plant in East Dubuque with 9 cars.

Running only several hundred feet behind 499, 811 pulls down to Homer west where it will await a restricting to follow 499. Both 499 and 811 held the main at Homer to let 580 by allowing them to b... (more)

A nice, clean CSX C40-8W leads train #661 right into the setting sun as it approaches Tower CK. The train would duck into the siding at Minnesota City for a very tardy Amtrak 8.

Two generic CP SD40-2's and ICE 6406 drag 636 onto the River Sub at Tower CK, following right behind 486-26.

A CSX Spartan Cab GE leads 6000+ ft of phosphate down the River Sub on a brisk March day.

CSXT 8517 and HLCX 5989 hit a pocket of sunlight as the swing through the S-curve at Dakota. Timing sure was on my side today!

A great pair of pacman SD40-2's preform an unique switching operation at the 308 cross-over switch. Once in a blue moon 581 will use the switch to drop cars, but usually it is G77's job.