The Winona area yard power features CP 4406 and SOO 4423 along with a hopper full of ballast and SOO caboose #30.

Fresh From the Paint Booth! NPR 5558 shows off its new royal blue and yellow paint scheme. This locomotive hasn't even touched its home rails which lie two miles to the north at Dakota Juntion, ... (more)

Believe it or not loads of gravel from the Strata Corporation and pipe for Enbridge Pipeline travel over this section of track even though the combination of rail, joint, and tieplate have had it!... (more)

CHS' sunflower processing facility at Hazel, MN (MP 299 Detroit Lakes Sub.) operated by Northwest Grain has a unique switcher dubbed the "St. Hilaire Special" along with a lawn ornament above the ... (more)

SOO 6040 heads south between Strandquist and Newfolden where it will sort out hoppers at the Newfolden Co-Op Elevator Assn. en route to Thief River Falls, MN.

A northbound grain train with CP 5935 out in front sits next to one of the four daily scheduled trains at the north end of the Thief River Falls yard.

The last week in May features SOO 2064 & 4424 as yard power.

A Milwaukee Road Box Car's Final Fate...box car #952 will experience the cutting torch and wind up exactly like the cubed steel sitting next to it as scrap. The Canadian Pacific Railroad sets out... (more)

CP 778: An Old Friend and one of the remaining former SOO 700 series SD40-2's has called the yard in Thief River Falls home since 2008.

CP 8852 and its train sits in the yard in the presence of the moon which blends into the sky and clouds.

On this particular weekend SOO 559 was in charge of the Marine on St. Croix/Maple Island excursions. However, the locomotive put up quite a fight in order to be started. The workers tried to sta... (more)

Metro Transit's Northstar Commuter Rail pauses between trips from Big Lake to Target Field. This particular train on a Saturday featured 504 and 506.

SCXY 1363 sits after work hours by its home by St. Croix Valley's main office and Horizon Milling, Rush City's most prominent city structure.

SOO 4451 & CP 4407 idle by the 8th Street Crossing with a long line of grain hoppers between movements during a busy week along the Noyes/Detroit Lakes subdivisions.

Three Northern Plains locomotives head through Thief River Falls to pick up a string of hoppers filled with sand and gravel from the Strata Corporation in Trail, MN sitting only several yards in f... (more)