Ethanol empties are only a few hunderd feet into their short, but time consuming trip just across the MN/SD border.

An ex-SF 8-40CW leads an empty unit grain train eastward.

Shortly after sunrise, a couple products of General Electric bring a long 198 past some rural crossings just east of Lowry. After a new crew and some diesel in the yard, it would be on its way eas... (more)

BNSF 9224 makes the turn into the NSP plant to drop off another load of coal.

A couple EMD dash-2's lead a couple GE's on a westbound near the town of Barrett, Mn. I'm not positive, but i believe the GE's are to be set out at Elbow Lake to head up a grain train that has be... (more)

A pair of ICE units throttle up as they crawl out of the yard at Tracy and onto the Huron Subdivision. Temps are rising into the 50's on this beautiful December day. Temps should be well below f... (more)

A couple GE's bring their train through Alexandria. The steel girder is the bridge over Minnesota Highway 27. From ground level, a person wouldn't think this is a 25 mph curve, but with some ele... (more)

When Milwaukee road was in its heyday, their double track main though the western Minnesota prairies did encounter several river valleys on its way west. One such spot, known as Watson Sag still e... (more)

BNSF 4939 referred to themselves as a "rock train", but with a long string of BN gondolas, i wonder how something like this gets unloaded.

The 290 glides down the hill toward the yard at Glenwood.

Two GE's have an easy last leg of the trip. They are the first out of Murray Siding, in front of two other westbounds. Also, they have the shortest of the three trains.

Just after sunrise, grain loads head east on the Elbow Lake sub.

"Vintage" power leads this manifest past a stack train at the MP 66 crossover.