One of CP's newer rebuilt locomotives was set out in Hoffman by a westbound manifest earlier in the morning and is now hard at work loading a grain train at the elevator in town.

Four EMDs, including two SD60 rebuilds slow their train to a crawl across the steel bridge east of Hoffman. They'll come to a stop shortly to wait for some welders to clear, then continue on to t... (more)

Three blue and yellow Iowa, Chicago & Eastern units lead a unit tank train west across the Elbow Lake Subdivision.

A unit tank train behind a single GE appears out of the fog east of Hoffman.

The tail end of this monster double stack train from Canada is still coming through the outskirts of Hoffman as the head end passes over the big trestle east of town. The snow-less landscape real... (more)

A short wayfreight out of Glenwood heads west across the old Hoffman trestle. This bridge still has a very faded Soo Line word-mark right in the center.

The usually nocturnal westbound hotshot 199 is running late today, allowing for a daylight view as they cross the Chippewa River east of Hoffman.

The fog and frost are thick in the Chippewa River valley east of Hoffman as an eastbound CP freight train rumbles toward Glenwood.

Two leased SD40-2s, one CEFX and one NREX, lead a ribbon rail train across the steel trestle east of Hoffman, MN.

Led by two SD40-2s, the Elbow Lake Sub wayfreight crosses the bridge east of Hoffman near the end of a gorgeous December day.

In late afternoon light, a lone GE leads a westbound train across the steel bridge east of Hoffman, MN.

After finishing up a 4 train meet back in town, a very rare(for the area) FXE GEVO has its crude oil train in a race against a motorcycle on the adjacent highway 55 outside of Hoffman, Minnesota.

An eastbound CP train cuts through the rolling farmland east of Hoffman, crossing the large steel bridge over the Chippewa River.

An AC4400 and an SD40-2 lead a westbound across the steel bridge east of Hoffman, MN on a breezy late summer day.

With a long crude oil train in tow, a mix matched set of foreign power heads east for Glenwood. This is only the second time I've caught a Ferromex unit in Minnesota and this seemed like a perfec... (more)