With their factory-fresh paint glowing in the morning sunlight, two brand new SD70ACes lead a unit coal train north between Holland and Ruthton, MN.

UP coal empties cast long shadows as they head north through the vast landscape of the Powder River Basin.

The eastbound Empire Builder makes a rare appearance on its original GN routing between Fargo and Minneapolis due to a derailment near Wadena, MN. After picking up a new pilot crew for the Wayzat... (more)

Two SD70ACe's lead coal loads for Alma, WI across the Sheyenne River valley at Valley City on a warm summer morning.

Fog hangs in the valley as a DPU pushes a tank train across BNSF's large bridge.

A mixed bag of power leads train 491 north out of Glenwood. CP has begun a rebuilding (and repainting) program for their fleet of Soo Line SD60s, so who knows how many more chances I'll get to se... (more)

Two of the Red River Valley & Western's newest motive power acquisitions, some former BNSF SD70MAC's, rest in the yard at Breckenridge on a warm summer morning.

The Milwaukee Road 261 is the star attraction wherever she goes and Train Days at Saint Paul Union Depot is no exception as people line up to see her all weekend long.

An eastbound rolls across the Minnesota countryside at sunset between Sedan and Brooten.

After enjoying a nice meal at Ole's Big Game Bar & Grill in Paxton, we started to make our way back to North Platte. By Sutherland we were hearing reports of tennis ball sized hail and it was obv... (more)

A Balfour Beatty ballast cleaner working with a Canadian Pacific tie replacement gang creeps along just west of MP 110 between Brooten and Sedan. They're waiting for a few tamping machines to fin... (more)

With Grinnell Glacier in the distance, the sun sets on a railroad of sorts along the shores of Swiftcurrent Lake near Many Glacier Lodge in Glacier National Park. These rails are used twice a yea... (more)

This view gives you a good idea of the vastness of eastern Wyoming and the scale of the railroad operations in the area. A BNSF loaded coal train makes its way north along the triple track Orin S... (more)

A former SP GP9, seemingly well kept by the Portland & Western, rests for the weekend in Eugene.

With winds gusting to 50 mph and the windchill down to about -30F, much of the countryside is obscured by blowing snow as an eastbound CP train breaks through a drifted crossing. Viewed from a lo... (more)