When I went out to catch Amtrak 7, I got word of 2 west bounds running ahead of it. First one sure was a nice surprise with a 5800 series SD40-2, and Soo SD60. Check out that number board on the 5... (more)

With the all clear at Winona Junction, BNSF 4580 along with 2 other motors, storm towards single track with hot intermodal from Portland.

Soo 6034 and Soo 6044 find a patch of sun as they guide loaded tanker train 668 down river.

Three sets of dynamics are howling as the 0500 loads twist down the hill into Silver Bay.

Little did I expect to shoot a YN3 SD60I leading a train on the River this morning! CSXT 8743 heads coke loads for the Indiana Railroad through Winona at 07:45.

CP 5957, Soo 6060, CITX 3102, and IC&E 6217 give it all they can departing Minnesota City after a 5 train meet. This train got stuck up at Lakeview around 09:00 due to a broken rail, and by the ti... (more)

Trying out a different location, I catch 290 with a stellar SD40-2/SD60M/SD60 combo!

My favorite IC&E motor heads train #170 down the River Sub, with 2 NREX (Rent-a-wrecks) trailing.

2-486 tromps through Homer on a beautiful Sunday morning.

It's all 2% grade from here to Lewiston, time to hit notch 8. CP 5919 and IC&E 6436 work train #277 westward up Stockton Hill.

A very nicely timed meet occurs right at 5th Street with the end of a monster stack train, and the headend of M-PRCB. PRCB was the train we had been waiting for, with UP 3078 third id the consist.... (more)

One of my older shots, 636 roaring through Homer on a spectacular November morning, with a jaw dropping lash-up of 2 ex Milwaukee SD40-2's and a rare StL&H dash 2.

G77 heads for the depot with 5 hoppers and a caboose, complete with another days work.

Throttled up to 30, a massive train #170 leans into one of the many curves along the Marquette Sub just south of La Crescent. Both the line and lead locomotive are a perfect match, both being once... (more)

After returning to the train and preforming an air-test, 581-22 was back on the move west with a decent train. Hot on it's heels was 271, who had been holding at Homer.