The M-DILLAU (General Merchandise-Dilworth, MN to Laural, MT) passes under the signal bridge marking the beginning of the Jamestown Subdivision

With 85 cars in tow, the 497 heads west through the frozen fields near the Oswald siding. A good portion of the cars on this train would be set out 8 miles away at Hankinson and forwarded to CP/SO... (more)

Westbound coal empties start down the curve in the tracks that leads to the Mississippi River bridge. Downtown Brainerd's historic water tower is evident on the left.

With the ICE's "City of Jackson" and "City of Minneapolis" as power, DME's Crawford (Nebraska) Turn idles away on the main south of Hermosa waiting for a crew to hop aboard and bring it about 20 m... (more)

I don't know if it was just a strange coincidence or somebody having fun in Superior, but this all-green consist was nice to see on St. Patrick's Day. This train stopped on the main at Kimberly to... (more)

Many red containers pass slowly through Staples

A westbound empty coal train is quickly approaching the station sign bearing the name of Josiah Perham, the first president of the Northern Pacific Railroad, whose transcon through west-central Mi... (more)

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.

Under white-out conditions, the first Drayton Local of March eases down track 2 in the yard.

The Drayton Local, today hauling 11 grain cars, proceeds under the University of North Dakota's "hamster tube" en route to the Grand Forks yard.

A short empty grain train heads east toward the Dilworth, MN yard

A double-stack train does a good job of giving some color to the brown landscape as it blasts through Randall.

In a scene straight out of 1992 or 1993...a dual-window SD60M leads an empty coal train west through Brainerd. The stucture in the background is the city's historical water tower, otherwise known ... (more)

A BNSF and NS locomotive team up to take this merchandise train west. The cloud in the background is from all the snow this train is kicking up.

The two GP50s that will be used on the following morning's Dalhart Roadswitch idle away alongside the towering Dalhart Consumers Fuel Association's elevator on a pleasant Thursday evening in Dalha... (more)