A nicely numbered SD60 is in the lead as Clay Boswell coal loads head eastward into Minnesota.

Clay Boswell coal loads behind two SD60s and an SD60M roll eastward over the Red River bridge between Grand Forks, ND, and East Grand Forks, MN.

Two EMD leasors run the M-SUPMIN west through the abandoned station of Ojata, between Powell and Emerado, en route to the east siding switch at Lakota. The bridge over the Freshwater Coulee is und... (more)

After spending most of the day doing work in nearly every city on the Staples Subdivision west of Wadena, the Wadena Local is nearing its home terminal of Dilworth with a nice mix of 19 cars, incl... (more)

The thrice weekly M-SUPMIN has power more suited for a coal train, two power-by-the-hour leasors, today as it rolls westward through East Grand Forks.

Two blue beasts and a single warbonnet SD75M approach Merrifield in the lead of Clay Boswell coal empties on a pleasant, cool sunny day in eastern North Dakota.

Backing all the way to Wharncliffe, NS worktrain 98J enters the west portal of Glen Alum tunnel. Spring has just begun in the hills along the Tug Fork valley.

The Laurel Subdivision's weekly local, with just 14 cars, is having little trouble going uphill as it goes through the tiny community of Raynesford.

The second, final, coal train for the day to the Leland Olds Power Plant near Stanton is empty and heading through Beulah on its way west back to the mine.

Like a 10 mph snake, a train full of lignite coal from the Antelope Valley mine about 35 miles down the line rounds the curve south of Stanton and approaches its destination of the Leland Olds Pow... (more)

EMD SD70 is working a Westbound coal train thru Floriston two years before hordes of yellow SD70's would populate Donner Pass. #7001 is lashed up with three of SP's tunnel motors

Taken from the busy US HWY 2 overpass, two blue geeps take today's Cass Lake Local to the west. This train is leaving Bemidji behind and approaching Wilton within a couple of miles.

EMDX 9008 leads Ardoch coal empties south on the Hillsboro Sub. The Merrifield station sign serves as a tangible warning about the hazards of being too close to the tracks...it was recently clobb... (more)

An Oakway leaser and BNSF 9277 (the unique H1 EMD widecab) rest on Main 2 near the 25th St. overpass after picking up SCKX empties left there from the Otter Tail Valley Railroad. This interchange... (more)

Destroying the earth and the environment (yeah right!), this Oakway smokes it up as it departs Dilworth eastbound with a high priority Pasco, WA - Northtown, MN manifest.