The daily St. Cloud local heads west after spending the day in Northtown.
Just seconds after meeting its eastbound counterpart, another commuter train heads for Big Lake.
Double stacks from Tacoma, WA cruise east through downtown Elk River an a brisk late summer morning.
The eastbound Empire Builder is 15 minutes ahead of being two hours late as it flies through Elk River. At the end, are several BNSF cars, some include the Marias Pass, and the Gerald Grinstein.
The first eastbound Northstar train is already full of Twins fans heading to this afternoon's game at Target Field.
A matched set of warbonnets leads a stack train through Elk River on a gorgeous summer evening.
An H2 MAC with flashing ditch lights heads up a manifest through downtown Elk River. A NS standard cab GE helps out as well.
A stiff south wind blows the exhaust of this high priority intermodal which is just a few minutes out of Northtown.
Just another beautiful Minnesota summer sunset in Elk River.
An 8,000' stack train snakes up the hill out of the Mississippi River valley on a muggy summer morning.
Double stacks from Seattle, WA scoot through Elk River ahead of six hour MOW work window.
This BNSF GE and NS SD70M-2 lead an intermodal heading out of Elk River into the setting sun.
A matched set of SD40-2's both still wearing their BN green! Considering it is 2010 I could not have asked for a better consist.
A lite unit move (with 128 cars) heads west through Elk River. This train will tie down in the yard at Staples, thus the reason for the strange symbol.
This BNSF stack train heads towards Big Lake on by far the nicest day of the year so far.