A pair of SD40-2s are in charge of an empty unit potash train across Minnesota on a clear fall afternoon.

A fall thunderstorm is rumbling overhead as one of CP's unique SD30C-ECO rebuilds pulls two Siemens transformers across Minnesota.

A westbound empty crude oil train accelerates away from a meet at Murray Siding and heads toward a crew change at Glenwood Yard. The pooled UP power looked nice on an early fall evening.

Pacing alongside one of CP's unique GP20C-ECOs that's pulling a track evaluation car train westbound between Belgrade and Brooten, MN.

A Track Evaluation Car train makes its way west across the CP's Paynesville Subdivision behind one of the railroad's unique GP20C-ECO locomotives.

After waiting on some trains and doing some work in town, two GP20C-ECOs are eastbound out of Eden Valley with the H41 wayfreight on a late summer morning. I don't know exactly how old this unit ... (more)

Two GP20C-ECOs are on the siding at Eden Valley with the H41 wayfreight as NS 9273 blasts by with eastbound train 490 on the main.

Five units bring westbound train 497 toward Glenwood as the sun is about to break over the horizon on a late summer morning.

The sun isn't very far into the sky as two beavers lead eastbound train 496 around the curve just east of Lowry.

Even "Nessie" looks on from Gunderson Pond as Soo Line 353 makes another loop with a trainload of happy passengers on a gorgeous Labor Day at the Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion.

Sunset on the Minnesota prairie, seen from the top of the Belgrade Co-op elevator as an eastbound CP train rolls through town, slowing for a meet ahead.

A Loram rail grinder fresh out of the factory just down the line in Hamel, MN gleams in the morning sun on the siding at Brooten. It's waiting for a crew from Loram to arrive and begin testing be... (more)

Seeing these units from one of the final orders of locomotives delivered to the Santa Fe before the merger is always bittersweet. Nineteen years ago this was the pride of the Superfleet.

A hazy summer sunset provides a perfect backdrop for an eastbound CP freight train as it rumbles through Belgrade, headed for a meet just ahead at Murray siding, then on to Minneapolis and St Paul... (more)

Strong summer thunderstorms have given way to brilliant sunlight and a faint rainbow as the CP switch job out of Glenwood picks up some empty fertilizer tank cars from West Central Industries in B... (more)