Two GEVOs lead train 490 south out of Plummer en route to meet the Minnesota Northern Railroad's Warroad Local at Erskine and a ballast train at Mahnomen. The Glenwood Wayfreight is right behind t... (more)

An eastbound Canadian Pacific freight races away from the setting sun as it rounds the curve at MP 110 just a few miles east of Sedan, MN.

The sun is just seconds from disappearing behind a cloud bank as an eastbound freight dashes toward Belgrade behind a CEFX leaser and a SOO SD60.

SOO 6060 sits in the siding at South Haven while waiting on a westbound during a blizzard

The snow that fell earlier in the day has melted, the sun is shining through the clouds, and three EMD 710 prime movers are working hard to move an eastbound along the former Soo Line Minnesota ma... (more)

Some spring snow showers are tapering off and the sun even manages to peek through the clouds and find the well worn face of SD60M SOO 6060 as it waits for a new crew at Glenwood East.

A breezy spring afternoon finds an eastbound CP freight dropping down a slight hill south of Forada.

Train 490, led by four EMDs of various backgrounds and paint schemes, does some switching in Glenwood before departing east for Minneapolis. The locomotive to the left is clearly a former BNSF SD... (more)

The warmest day of 2011 in Minnesota so far is brightened even further by the appearance of one of CP's former Soo Line SD60Ms leading a great lashup of power east out of Glenwood. Here they're a... (more)

March is certainly not the most beautiful time of year in Minnesota, what with all the flooding, brown grass, and oh yeah, mud. The sunsets can still be pretty, though, as was the case on this Ma... (more)

A nice lashup of power rolls through Belgrade with an eastbound freight, seen from the US 71/MN 55 overpass east of town.

An eastbound with a leaser in the consist cruises by a stand of trees just west of Belgrade.

A Golden Beaver and a leased SD40-2 bring eastbound train 490 past the old elevator complex in Kimball. They will be stopping in just a few miles to wait behind another train in advance of the sid... (more)

A pair of veteran SOO diesels sing the trademark EMD song as they begin their journey down the Detroit Lakes Sub. The train was 13,000 tons, so this days work wasn't going to be easy. In its man... (more)

Over a foot of snow has fallen in the last day and a half and it shows no signs of letting up. The railroad keeps rolling, though, as a SOO SD60M passes the signal and west siding switch in Broot... (more)