A westbound grain train with a mix of ICE, NS, and CP power accelerates out of Murray Siding in the distance and makes its way through Belgrade as the sun breaks the horizon on another sub-zero wi... (more)

An eastbound Canadian Pacific train is silhouetted against a cold winter sunset just west of Belgrade on the former Soo Line.

Some UP power brings a westbound around the curve and by the old elevator in downtown Grove City, about 20 miles east of Willmar on the BNSF's former GN mainline west of Minneapolis.

Our recent stretch of cold and snowy weather is a good excuse to stay inside and "dig" through old photographs. Here's one I came across from Halloween morning a few years ago of seven EMDs leadi... (more)

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)

A Northern Plains Railroad SD40-2 has somehow found its way south to the elevator track in Hoffman where it sits on a sunny but cold January day.

A brightly repainted SD60 trails a dingy AC4400CW on train 498 as it departs Hoffman and heads toward Glenwood on another bitterly cold January day. They would only make it as far as Lowry before... (more)

High winds overnight have formed drifts in some places along the CP north of Glenwood. Two unrebuilt Soo Line units are plowing a little snow as they get underway out of Glenwood and head for Thi... (more)

An eastbound oil train is fighting uphill as it accelerates out of Glenwood. Days like this when the windchill is somewhere south of -30 are a testament to the toughness and dedication of railroa... (more)

The windchill is down to the neighborhood of -40 as CP's Vancouver to Chicago hotshot races east from Glenwood at sunset.

Passengers wait for one of Jerusalem's modern light rail vehicles to come to a complete stop before boarding at the Shim'on Ha-Tsadik station northeast of central Jerusalem on a beautiful January ... (more)

A rare to the United States CP SD9043MAC leads grain empties westbound across Minnesota on a day when the windchill was down to about -40 when I took this pacing shot. Needless to say, the car wi... (more)

Three former Soo Line locomotives now in CP red make their way east toward Glenwood on a clear fall day.

The sun is beginning to set on a beautiful winter day in North Dakota as an eastbound oil train crosses high over Lake Ashtabula near Luverne.

A fatal grade crossing accident involving the previous day's eastbound Empire Builder and subzero temperatures (evidenced by the exhaust condensing above the BNSF locomotive) have the BNSF's north... (more)