Happy Birthday Mom! Since our birthdays are only a couple days apart, my parents and I decided to spend the day shopping in St. Cloud. However, seeing Amtrak was delayed, and had an unusual leade... (more)

With its work done in Lowry, the wayfreight is on its way west to do some more work at various locations between here and Hankinson.

A unit ethanol train heads east toward Glenwood Yard.

Its rare enough to catch a train on this former BN line, but even more so to catch a pair of recently reactivated SD60M's. There are only a handful of 60M's that are back in service. The train i... (more)

Doesn't matter if they're going 5, or 50. They still look great. Three of them together is even better.

Two SD60M's cross a small trestle on the lightly used Browns Valley sub. Because of congestion back on the Morris sub, this train will make it 3 more miles to the small town of Alberta, where it ... (more)

With both Empire Builders running well behind schedule, a rare meet takes place at Moorhead Jct in daylight. Train 8 is coming off the Hillsboro Sub and crossing over to main 2 in front of Amtrak... (more)

The hottest train on the tracks in this area blasts off from Glenwood East with permission to do 60 mph. Only 1xx series trains are allowed 60 mph. The rest are limited to 50.

This train left just as fast as it came.

CP 8541 is getting help from a CP SD40-2, a SOO SD60, and an ex-SP tunnel motor, now owned by NREX.

With the shake-up at the hands of Hunter Harrison, the 472 train out of Huron, SD remains the only unchanged aspect of railroading out here. Even this may change as this line faces an uncertain f... (more)

CP 8823 heads north through (another) Minnesota snowstorm.

A grain train rolls past the Ammonia Plant near Glenwood, Minnesota.

Two SD's and a rare extended cab Geep fly west with the daily 277 train to Huron.

CP 9134 makes just its 2nd trip through the United States since its been made compliant for US travel. By the end of the day, they'll have set out all their cars along the Detroit Lakes Sub.