Always happy to find colorful consists like this 17 years after the merger. This set of locomotives will be the power for the Sunday southbound local to Mitchell, SD.

From a hill above Stockholm, the Watertown local sweeps through a cut west of town. Far western Minnesota can be seen in the distance some 20 miles away.

A pair of BN U-boats work the yard in Edgemont. We even have a caboose in the shot along with what appears to be a 4 or 5 person crew.

A collection of 2nd generation EMD's await assignments out this former Milwaukee Road roundhouse.

After setting their train out in the yard, this pair of 40-2's make for the service rack.

Sometimes you find cool things that come full circle... BNSF 2051 started life in 10/1966 as Milwaukee Road GP40 #199. Through unrelated purchases by the BN and BNSF, this geep is once agai... (more)

BN 5553, KCS 642, BN 5022 along with KCS 666, 620 thunder east with coal loads at Igloo. On this hot May morning the name Igloo didn't fit the location very well.

BNSF 3173 is the lead motor on the local that has just returned to Aberdeen from Mitchell, SD.

After setting out half their train at Milbank, an ethanol empty bound for Aberdeen, SD makes its way toward Bristol, SD. After one of the best chases in years, we called it quits here and headed f... (more)

Every once in a while, we stumble onto something good. Today was no different. After chasing a trio of brand new BNSF SD70ACe's, we decided to head west to find some things worth finding out into... (more)

TCWR 2300 has spent most of its career in the Twin Cities, working between Hopkins and St. Paul. That is why i found it odd that it has made its way back out to the far western reaches of the Twin... (more)

CNW 1768 on the PM switch job crosses a small trestle as it heads from the roundhouse to the yard for an evening of work. The nice looking unit in good paint was rebuilt and renumbered in November... (more)

USAF 1687 creeps out of the 3 stall wooden roundhouse at Prairie Village, which houses three steam locomotives and a pair of industrial diesels.

BHC 63 rolls downgrade through Kennedyville on its way towards Keystone, South Dakota. Since 2007, the first trip of the day is normally pulled by this ex-C&O GP9.

When 103C was new it headed up the Milwaukee Road's Hiawatha between the Twin Cities and Chicago. When it was retired it went to "Bucksnort Junction," a railroad-themed diner at Tea, South Dakota... (more)