Four 40-2's make their way down Stockton Hill with train #276 in the last light of the day.

A nice, clean CSX C40-8W leads train #661 right into the setting sun as it approaches Tower CK. The train would duck into the siding at Minnesota City for a very tardy Amtrak 8.

Train #637 approaches the westward signal at C.P. Goodview. Moments later the conductor would get off the train, watch it pull past the crossover, and then protect the shove as it backed onto the ... (more)

The crew on CP 5691 gets train #637 back underway after they finished preparing the trains new lead motor, NREX 7360. Within seconds the 7360 would also take off, heading for C.P. Goodview, where ... (more)

DM&E 6363 rolls along the same portion of track that its railroading career began. Once Milwaukee Road #201, it became the first motor to get the Milwaukee's Hiawatha paint scheme. After the Soo L... (more)

Train #271 slowly brings it up to C.P. Goodview to meet a pair of eastbound trains before continuing west. Always is great to see an ex Milwaukee Road unit on the former Milwaukee Mainline. Note: ... (more)

With 19 from River and Rail, job 01 crawls past the dilapidated Leeve Yard. Currently all yard tracks are out of service, and only #3 track is in operating condition. Word was back in the day, thi... (more)

Passing the Bud King Ice Arena, Job 01 pulls a cut of 8-loaded sand gons onto the "mainline". Once fully on the main, they would shove the cut just beyond the switch, go grab 8 empties, and then p... (more)

The Northtown to Galesburg manifest wastes no time taking single track after meeting westbound NSINTW at Winona Junction. Todays train had a real mix of power consisting of BNSF 8300, 641, NS 2548... (more)

Job 01 has train LTA-42 fully assembled and all ready to go on the old mainline, while an aging Northwestern switch stand battles a late April snow storm.

A cascade green dash 2 heads a lengthy #271 through my neighborhood on a Sunny afternoon.

With fertilizer traffic on the rise, UP has been kept quite busy moving cars between their yard and industries on the other end of town. At 18:40 Job 01 trots back to the yard with a cut of hopper... (more)

Under sunny skies conductor Dan gives a friendly wave to the crew on train #499, passing his train (G69) at Tower CK. 15 minutes before this shot was taken an 80mph hail/rain storm had whipped pas... (more)

NREX 7931, ICE 6458, CITX 3172, DME 6084, DME 6370, and CITX 2804 make quite the rainbow on this 120+ car train #277 approaching the tiny town of Uitca.