The Labor Day version of the Wadena Local has 5 cars and is rushing through Glyndon with nowhere to go, as its home terminal of Dilworth about 4 miles away has no room for it at the moment.

One of BNSF's badly faded dash 9s leads a Z train around the curve a couple miles south of Hawley.

A "red barn" is in the lead of a Winnipeg bound train as it passes over a crossing about 5 miles south of the Canadian border near the Orleans station. This train would later have a 2 and a half h... (more)

A westbound intermodal train has canola fields and the "skyline" of Sintaluta alongside it as it passes through the Saskatchewan countryside.

An eastbound intermodal train splits the signals at Pasqua near the important junction where CP's tracks either continue going east in Canada or curve southeast and eventually reach the United Sta... (more)

Potash loads sail west through Chaplin with the town's obligatory grain elevator in the background.

A priority intermodal train comes up to the mile 8.4 signals on its way west from Swift Current.

Following about a 5 minute station stop, the eastbound Empire Builder departs Shelby about 90 minutes late.

The Laurel Subdivision's daily southbound manifest has 3 SD40-2s that are giving it all they've got to get their train up the grueling hill that begins about 12 miles away in Armington.

An eastbound empty coal train from Portland General Electric passes through the 29th street crossing near the east end of MRL's downtown Billings yard.

The Laurel Subdivision's weekly local, with just 14 cars, is having little trouble going uphill as it goes through the tiny community of Raynesford.

The end of a westbound empty coal train skirts the edge of the Yellowstone River as it continues its way through the river's lush valley. The island in the background is one of many along the rive... (more)

An empty coal train passes alongside the wide, but shallow Yellowstone River as it continues west.

Two dash 9 and one dash 8, all in different paint schemes, lead a eastbound grain train along the Yellowstone River near Terry. The train is about 9 miles away from the switch that will take it of... (more)

An empty coal train cruises past the Terry Badlands and alongside the Yellowstone River as it continues west through eastern Montana.