Crawling through St Charles, a pair of blue and yellows give the Waseca Sub a proper appearance. This stretch of railroad has been DM&E from the start-up, so its alway nice to see the name carry o... (more)

Nearing the top of the hill the young engineer has his horses notched high, to assure his train will make it to the top.

Skirting the hillside, train #277 avoids the late evening shadows of the Mississippi River Valley, as it grinds up the 2.0% grade on Stockton Hill.

Ice local pumps air into cars from the transfer track at the Dubuque CN yard as the engineer greets a CN engineer

150 car train with 2 SD's rolls by at track speed 25 MPH, Yes it Needs paint!

An empty ethanol out of Kenwood Yard in Albany, NY is rolling NB for Montreal and points west. The power will be turned on the wye at CPF-478 so the CP unit will be in the lead in Canada. A DM&E l... (more)

CP has the last strong hold of SD40-2's working the system and here are two building a stack train at the east end of Bensenville Yard.

After a pick up at Leaf River, A #589 train proceeds west towards Savanna as the cooling towers from the Byron nuclear facility loom behind.

Passing milepost 18, train #276 marches out of Lewiston behind four SD40-2's.

DM&E 6363 rolls along the same portion of track that its railroading career began. Once Milwaukee Road #201, it became the first motor to get the Milwaukee's Hiawatha paint scheme. After the Soo L... (more)

Train #271 slowly brings it up to C.P. Goodview to meet a pair of eastbound trains before continuing west. Always is great to see an ex Milwaukee Road unit on the former Milwaukee Mainline. Note: ... (more)

Up to this point, the only trains on the D&H that have been led by DME power have been the ethanol trains that originate in the Midwest. In the last couple days, however, DME SD40-3 #6054 has led... (more)

170s train crosses the Mighty Mississippi at Hastings with a trio of blue and yellows.

Shortly after leaving Glenwood, this quartet of EMDs are working their way up to 60 mph with a very long manifest. As you might imagine, the sound of these units was just fantastic!

DM&E's 170 train from St Paul to KC wades through the rising floodwaters in downtown Davenport. This would be one of the last trains through town before the railroad was shut down in the evening ... (more)