DME train 277 round the curve near Lake Benton, MN

With all the lease power, it has become extremely difficult to catch pure DME/ICE power on the former DM&E. Having not spent time alot of time shooting them before CP took over, it was nice to ca... (more)

The daily 277 train struggles up and out of New Ulm, Minnesota. The four SD40-2's made quite a racket while doing their job. Here they are running through an intersection near the 3M Plant.

With the crew close to dying on hours, the 10mph speed restriction didnt help things out. Eventually, a crew off the Huron Sub would have to bring the train another couple miles to its destination... (more)

The first of four blue and gold units tip-toes across a small trestle west of Walnut Grove, MN. Track speed is down to 10 here due to poor conditions.

After leaving a cut of coil cars in Kasson, which will most likley be delivered to McNeilus Steel by the Rochester local come Monday morning, DME 6359 and a leased unit lead a mostly empty freight... (more)

DME train 487 waits in the hole at Cobden, MN, for opposition not yet out of Tracy while lighting and thunderstorms rage over southern Minnesota

Eastbound ethanol rolls behind DME power past the changing colors of the Indiana soybean fields.

Waiting Out The Great Flood of 2011 The Dakota, Minnesota, & Eastern "City of Highmore" and Canadian Pacific 8244 a GP9U wait out the worst flooding to hit Sunbury since Hurricane Agnes in... (more)

Tied down due to river flooding , with City of Highmore on power.

With a blue almost matching the clear skies overhead, DM&E 6360 strolls down the siding at Minnesota City with train #270 bound for Nahant, IA in tow.

The Saratoga to Kenwood turn job rolls thru a location known as Crescent on the railroad with 86 cars in tow, heavy on Omya traffic (not in the picture), with this train being one of the few outle... (more)

A former Union Pacific SD40-2 heads up a DM&E train at Wall, South Dakota.

Train #270 slowly pulls down the siding towards the signal at River Junction Proper. With their counterpart waiting for traffic to clear before it enters the mainline, it will still be a few minut... (more)

It's just another quiet summer afternoon in northwest Ohio as K637 crawls across the diamond at DR Tower behind a pair of borrowed DME units.