A westbound empty oil train glides across the trestle east of Paynesville on a calm and peaceful Halloween afternoon. The buffer car is a Southern hopper. I took my first photograph at this loca... (more)

A priority stack train hustles through Belgrade on Halloween behind CP 8919.

The wayfreight heads west out of Belgrade as the cloud cover breaks up and the sun shines for the first time in a few days. An ex-Kennecott Copper unit, evidenced by the short fuel tank, leads th... (more)

An angle I've wanted to try for a while at Regal and an eastbound on a sunny fall afternoon provided a good opportunity.

From moving freight through the Windy City to loading grain cars on the prairie in Hoffman, Minnesota, now it's almost the end for this former Belt Railway of Chicago GP10. The scrap pile awaits.

The operator of the elevator at Oswald was kind enough to let us climb to the top for this view of train 199 as it heads west out of the town of Fairmount in extreme southeast North Dakota. Shado... (more)

This GP50 has been hanging around a while and I finally had the chance to get a good roster of it on the roundhouse lead in Willmar.

The East Local is returning to Willmar on a nice fall afternoon. It was nice to see an H1 GP leading the way.

A manifest behind two GEs is getting underway out of Willmar on their trip down the Marshall Sub to Sioux City, IA.

CP's Chicago-Vancouver intermodal hotshot came through town at the right time for a sunrise shot again this morning. Some frost glistens on the prairie grass as the long stack train hustles west ... (more)

In sweet evening light, two EMDs get a westbound underway out of Murray for the last leg of their trip to Glenwood.

With the coming of fall and shorter days, it won't be long before the sun will stay on the south side of the tracks here at Belgrade from sunrise to sunset. An eastbound came along at just the rig... (more)

A GP38AC and an ex-Kennecott Copper GP39-2 (CP 4599) lead the wayfreight toward Brooten to tie down for the evening, running at restricted speed due to signal troubles. A local farmer keeps this ... (more)

I keep thinking I'll never get the chance to get a shot of a SOO SD60 leading a train again, but I was proven wrong once again as the 6024 showed up as the sole unit for this westbound.

Two Golden Beaver AC4400CWs lead a freight west toward Glenwood. A fairly ho hum shot for today...maybe it will get better with age. In any case, it's a train on another beautiful sunny day, so ... (more)