On a sunny Wednesday afternoon, 4 bright red CP GE's charge into Winona with train 283.

Things are getting quite green, so its back to the barn shot! This time with a green and silver leaser leading #277 past the farm.

Four 40-2's make their way down Stockton Hill with train #276 in the last light of the day.

While I was biking to a friends house, I heard train 486 (which I had just seen), let a westbound know they were just starting into the siding at Homer. Little did I know that the westbound was go... (more)

Yet again I return to my favorite barn shot, this time with IC&E 6217 leading ethanol empties train #627.

Doing their best to make good time to St Paul, a slightly tardy #171 blasts into Red Wing behind a trio of ICE 6400 series. 6410, 6406, and 6450 have the honors today, looking great against freshl... (more)

With less then an hour of sunlight left, the hot "St Paul" Z-train races into Fountain City behind a classy ACe duo! This is about as cool as it gets on the BNSF nowdays...

Train #637 approaches the westward signal at C.P. Goodview. Moments later the conductor would get off the train, watch it pull past the crossover, and then protect the shove as it backed onto the ... (more)

Red, white, and blue leading train #637 on the 4th of July at mielpost 4... almost as if it was meant to be.

With 19 from River and Rail, job 01 crawls past the dilapidated Leeve Yard. Currently all yard tracks are out of service, and only #3 track is in operating condition. Word was back in the day, thi... (more)

A pair on nicely matched CITX SD40-2's and IC&E 6456 depart Minnesota City with empty ethanol train 637 for Aurora SD.

The highest numbered unit on the DM&E roster grinds upgrade on the head of 487 bound for Huron, SD.

Once being part of Chicago and North Westerns mainline through Winona, today it only serves as an interesting industrial branch. GMTX 2633 rumbles up the branch only inches from Front Street, with... (more)

My "Shot of the Day" is of 811 throttling out of Homer on a restricting signal, behind train 499. A Mac sandwiched by two ACe's sure made one hell of a lash-up.

I was told that DMIR 212 had been working Two Harbors for quite some time, but when I was at Iron Junction it had been stuck onto a T-Bird. Even though it is no longer maroon and gold, it is still... (more)