Taste the rainbow! Skittles bring a manifest towards Chi-town as the sun makes another appearance just for us.

A pair of veteran SD40-2s leads a train past the fall colors of John Latsch state park.

A trio of SD40-2s slow their ethanol train to roll through a slow order at a crossing replacement project among some gorgeous fall colors.

A DME "Red Bomber" heads the effort out of Ixonia with empty cans.

The DM&E #6367 was the first engine that engineer Lohrbach ever ran, way back as a child growing up along the DM&E. Fast forward 20 years and here we see Will dragging the CP transfer back to Stin... (more)

The Ipsco steel local comes back from the plant at Montpelier.

Tied down in the Wadsworth siding, CP 276's crew waits for a cab. Leading is a DM&E "Sleepy Eye" SD40-2, followed by a pair of IC&E SD40-2's.

An awesome trio of DME/ICE motors bring CP train 276 (Huron, SD - Chicago, IL) into Nashotah Siding to meet a westbound freight.

Some tasty power pulls west across the Nashota West switch as the conductor checks the train for anything that could have resulted in the 575 axle count that the train received from the 108.2 dete... (more)

DM&E 3833 and SOO 2066 make for a sweet lash-up, as they roll the G35 through Itasca.

Crawling towards Crawford
A Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern freight led by ICE (Iowa, Chicago and Eastern) SD40-2 No. 6432 heads westbound just west of Whitney, Nebraska, at sunset on Jul... (more)

DM&E 6068 and 6054 grind their way up Short Line Hill under 7th Street West (Fort Road).

Generations of railroading pass in the night as a new CP GE leads an ethanol train east as a bad-ordered ex-Milwaukee unit sits on the ancient, wobbly, overgrown Stark Candy Spur.

A Paducah rebuilt SD10 and a GP40 and 2 other motors lead an eastbound ten miles east of state capitol Pierre and are turning northward to leave the Missouri River. The crew will tie up at Huron ... (more)

An EMD quartet hums west into the setting sun in Pewaukee.