With temps around 8 degrees, an eastbound coal load passes through the town of Big Lake on a beautiful sunny morning.

A pair of GP60s lead the daily freight to Minot in golden evening light through the control point at 52.8. The Santa Fe blue and yellow is a rare find these days in the land of 10000 lakes, so it ... (more)

A pair of H4 SD40-2s are in command of a sizable mixed freight from Northtown Yard in Minneapolis to Grand Forks.

On a pleasant January afternoon, a trio of matching H4 EMDs leads a mixed freight through central Minnesota.

A ballast train from Hinckley, MN runs up to the Waite Park Rock Quarry with 1x1 power distribution. Rock trains have become quite frequent into St. Cloud in recent days as summer track work is... (more)

A matched pair of GP60Ms in dynamics slow their train on approach to a red signal further down the line. These two locomotives were once part of Santa Fe's "Super Fleet", but now they... (more)

The Minnesota Transporation Museum's "Great Northern 325" on a photo passenger special crossing the St. Croix River from Wisconsin into Minnesota. The GN 325 was repainted earlier in 202... (more)

A pair of ACe motors (SD70MACe, SD70ACe) thunder westward with building storms in the distance.

The Minnesota Transporation Museum's "Great Northern 325" and "Burlington Northern 6234" side by side on the Dresser Wye. The GN 325 was repainted earlier in 2023 at Relco i... (more)

A trio of GEs run their stack train 'left handed' around the curve out of town headed westbound in the evening light.

A rebuilt SD70MACe leads a mixed freight under the eastbound control signal gantry in Big Lake.

A matched trio of EMDs on the head end of a 9,000-foot mixed freight headed for Northtown yard in Minneapolis. Fall colors are just starting to pop in the area.

The Minnesota Transporation Museum's "Soo Line 559" on a photo passenger special crossing the St. Croix River from Minnesota into Wisconsin. This special was hosted by Trains Magazin... (more)

One of BNSF's 10 "25th Anniversary" commemorative "sticker" units leads an intermodal freight in late summer evening daylight. Though the fanfare of these units has dissipat... (more)

Fall colors are starting to pop as a mixed freight passes by with a pair of modern motive power.