A morning climb up to the top of the Belgrade Co-op elevator yields this view of a CP train as it rolls into town on its way from Glenwood to points east.

A CP AC4400CW and BNSF SD70MAC team up on an eastbound manifest seen crossing the Mississippi River at Little Falls.

Running a few minutes ahead of Amtrak, an eastbound crude oil train with BNSF and CN power is about to slip under the Soo Line trail just north of Royalton.

A four hour late Empire Builder is trying to make up time as it follows Highway 10 toward its next stop in St Cloud. The tail end of a westbound manifest is visible in the distance, rolling towar... (more)

A westbound departs Willmar on the Morris Sub behind a faded Warbonnet, curving away from Sioux City Line Jct and aligning itself for the run northwest toward Morris, Breckenridge, and eventually ... (more)

A visit to Willmar usually yields a few interesting railroad sights. April Fools Day 2014 was no exception. Here, a leased SD9043MAC sits with a couple of GE's on one of the servicing tracks. T... (more)

After meeting train 490 at Forada, westbound train 299 is accelerating north toward Alexandria and Thief River Falls behind a newer rebuild and an older AC4400CW.

This picture captures a rare event these days: two trains meeting at the shorter siding in Forada and both trains led by EMDs. Coming towards the camera is eastbound train 490 with a rebuilt SD60... (more)

A spring snowstorm is getting well underway as a lengthy westbound struggles to make it the last few miles into Glenwood. This is only the second CN leader I've ever seen along here.

CP 3018 leads a Track Evaluation Car (TEC) train westbound through Brooten.

My birthday almost came and went without me taking a picture of a train. The BNSF came through in the last minutes of daylight as a westbound behind two EMDs accelerated out of the siding at Atwa... (more)

A westbound Z train with four units, including a UP visitor, rolls by the former Great Northern depot in Wayzata.

After waiting on a parade of five eastbound trains to clear a single track work area just west of here, a westbound stack train accelerates through the crossover at East Medill. The new signals f... (more)

A hot Z train behind a fairly new ES44C4 accelerates after cresting the hill in the distance at Wyaconda.

One of BNSF's monster stack trains snakes its way down the undulating track west of Wyaconda with two GE's up front and two more pushing on the rear of the train. Nearly all of the containers are... (more)