CP 9733, a repainted and now Beaverless AC4400CW trails the typical kind on a westbound train 499 at the Pioneer Trail crossing just east of Loretto.

Leaving the small town of Lowry behind, an eastbound grain train behind three former Soo Line EMDs is in the home stretch to Glenwood and the end of its run across the Elbow Lake Sub from Enderlin... (more)

The Red River Valley & Western's Hankinson Turn poses next to the old Farmer's Co-op elevator in Campbell as it waits in the siding to get a track warrant on the Canadian Pacific's Elbow Lake Subd... (more)

Two CF7s and a spreader maintain their lonely vigil in downtown Breckenridge on a nice autumn day. This equipment has not seen service in quite some time.

A fine sight on a clear October day: three refurbished and repainted EMDs lead a grain train across the bridge just east of Hoffman. I still can't help but think this would have been even better ... (more)

A westbound coming almost straight out of the sunrise at Belgrade on a crisp autumn morning.

One of CP's newer rebuilt locomotives was set out in Hoffman by a westbound manifest earlier in the morning and is now hard at work loading a grain train at the elevator in town.

The sound of Caterpillar Diesels fills the air as the Red River Valley & Western's Hankinson Turn accelerates south out of Breckenridge, nearing the tiny town of Doran. Even though it's hardly sc... (more)

The Milwaukee Road 261 westbound fall color excursion from Minneapolis to Willmar meets an eastbound BNSF freight at Howard Lake.

An eastbound passes beneath the branches of a large tree on the west side of Lowry.

A rainy and dreary day keeps us in the car, but it can't dampen the spirits of young and old alike who have turned out to see the famous steam locomotive my three year old affectionately calls "th... (more)

My sons and railfanning companions for the day enjoy the view of a nearly new ES44C4 pulling oil loads along the Mississippi at Little Falls.

A vehicle train with some stacks on the head end is reflected in the Mississippi River at Little Falls. The water is so flat because the Little Falls dam is just out of frame to the left and of c... (more)

An eastbound crude oil train with NS power passes the Little Falls depot on a picture perfect autumn morning.

A westbound Canadian Pacific train passes a stand of colorful trees on the west side of Belgrade.