Westward plow extra with a Russell plow busts through a drift on Alden Hill at 30MPH.

SD35Q 2500, a former Southern Railway unit rebuilt by WC with a Q-Tron electronics system, heads up the turn job to Manitowoc based out of Neenah. Here the job is on its return trip and is seen c... (more)

SD35Q 2500, a former Southern Railway unit rebuilt by WC with a Q-Tron electronics system, heads up the turn job to Manitowoc based out of Neenah. Here the job is just begining its return trip an... (more)

Eastbound train 290 snakes along the Mississippi River at Donehower along CPR's appropiately named River Sub.

A northbound Kasnas City to Northtown train crosses the low, lengthy trestle across the West Fork of the Floyd River in northwest Iowa.

Northbound BNSF mixed freight drops down the reverse curves into the Beaver Creek valley at Manley, Minnestota, on a fine winter morning.

This is what the mid-section of DM&E, former CP, SD40-2 6075 looked like after a hard day of pushing a wedge plow across the Sheldon Sub.

High winds and drifting prompted the DM&E to operate this wedge plow from Mason City to the lines namesake town on Sheldon, which is the end of the line. Two red former CP units provide propulsio... (more)

High winds and drifting prompted the DM&E to operate this Jordan Spreader between Aurora, SD and Tracy, MN.

High winds and drifting prompted the DM&E to operate a wedge plow on its Sheldon Sub to the end of the line at its namesake town of Sheldon. Two red former CP units provide propulsion.

A rare winter run to the sand and gravel pit at Corson occured on Feb 9, 2010, as the E&E moved some cars around that were shopped for repairs durring the down time afforded by the winter slowdown... (more)

BNSF used its Sioux Falls based snow dozer to open up the heavily drifted Madison Sub. Unfortunately by the time I caught up with them they were through the heavy stuff...arghhh. This dozer wa... (more)

This is what BNSFwas up against for twenty miles of its Ravenna Sub between MP33 and MP55. Drifts across both tracks resulting in a berm between the two mains that was pushed by this Jordan Sprea... (more)

D&I's former Milwaukee Road plow pushes through a cut west of Alcestor on former C&NW track. The rarly used line was opened to facilitate the loading of a grain train at the elevator at Beresford... (more)

To remove the berm of snow between the double mains along the eastern end of the Ravenna Sub, BNSF utilized this Jordan ditcher to push the berm onto the other track where the rotary plow blew it ... (more)