M-SPKC makes a later appearance on the Marquette Sub, behind a nice pair of blue and yellow motors. The train is gliding south out of Brownsville just a few miles from the Iowa boarder.

We were leaving Marquette right at the exact moment this west bound DME train was departing. After a few attempts at getting to the tracks, we found a road that crossed them, and minutes later thi... (more)

After getting the signal at CK, IC&E 6449, DM&E 6370, and a CITX SD40-2 twist off the DM&E connection towards the River Sub.

DM&E 6363 rolls along the same portion of track that its railroading career began. Once Milwaukee Road #201, it became the first motor to get the Milwaukee's Hiawatha paint scheme. After the Soo L... (more)

DM&E 6365 is surrounded by an ocean of green as it climbs up the 1.8% grade of Stockton Hill. It will be an easy climb today with 5 motors, and only 46 cars.

These 2 IC&E motors have it easy today, gliding through Tower CK with a 9 car 271.

3 NS SD70M-2's and a UP AC44 make up for a pretty epic lash-up on a cold January morning over on the BNSF.

The buildings of Brownsville line the hillside as train #170 breaks the morning silence rolling south towards Kansas City, MO. The ICE/DME lines can be like a step back in time, with a majority of... (more)

DM&E 6094 glimmers in the last hour of sun as it heads a 171 up river.

Hot on 298's heels is coal train 810. Today's train is headed by a faded Gevo, SD70Mac, and an ACe as a DPU.

Rolling north along the Marquette Sub, train #171 rumbles across the backwaters of the Mississippi River at Reno.

Now thats a one-unit-wonder I'll be fine with! DM&E 6054 motors through Homer with a 79 car empty hopper train.

With a new warrant copied, train #277 makes a pull at Minnesota City behind 4 dash-2's and 111 cars.

The highlight of a very slow day on the River was this 271 powered by a great set of IC&E Dash 2's.

Late on a Thursday evening, 499 heads west through Winona with just a lone AC44 for power today.