The first ever H1 C44 heads an eastbound manifest out of the tunnel at Westminster, heading for St Paul yard with dyno's howling.

Main two to main one at Oakland and down to Newport to meet a westbound. Minutes behind Amtrak, H-NTWTUL sporting some nice power swings onto the wrong main as it glides through Oakland.

A cascade green dash 2 heads a lengthy #271 through my neighborhood on a Sunny afternoon.

After meeting two at Medary, an all ford #281 pulls thru La Crosse behind a perfect lash-up.

Amtrak #7 gets ready to highball Winona at sunset.

Racing west at every bit of track speed, train LTA41 has an awesome trio of grey and red GP60's (UP 2050, SP 9732, UP 1965). Even if SP 9732 wasn't leading, it was still quite a catch for 2011.

After grabbing some food, the hauler departs McDonalds heading back for St Paul light power. Only week remain for this operation before the plant closes and the rails turn to rust.

After working River and Rail, G77 heads back up Wall Street to grab cars for Bay State, requiring yet another run down Wall Street.

Better then candy! BNSF 8166 and 6634 roar past BNSF 756 at Winona Junction. Due to track work on the west main, BNSF 756 got stopped at Winona Junction at 12:00 and didn't depart till 16:00. H-BR... (more)

M-PRCB with a nice lash-up storms under the C&NW coaling tower at Nelson. The signals in Nelson are almost all C&NW too, but within a year UP will have the signals replaced and the coaling tower r... (more)

A fairly clean Beaver heads 4 recently reactivated CITX SD40-2's on train 198 in Winona.

My first shots taken on CTC Boards "A Day in North America" were of 637 lead by quite a unique lash-up. CITX 2794 of DRGW heritage, leads DM&E 6362 ,an ex Milwaukee Road motor, and CITX 3098.

With just shy of 10,000s of ethanol, these three EMD's were on their knees to keep train #636 rolling east over the DM&E. This is one of the good things the takeover actually resulted in...

Soo 2066 guides Job G77 down Wall Street with a decent cut of traffic for River and Rail, RTP, and Bay State.

Spring is here, and things are getting greener! Six dash-2's create the rainbow effect, dragging a monster train #277 through Lewiston on a lovely March afternoon.