Mounds Park in Saint Paul offers a number of good vantage points for viewing the parade of trains through the city. This CP transfer will head into Pig's Eye Yard in under a mile. The train in t... (more)
Lincoln to Northtown freight heads east between Litchfield and Darwin.
After stopping to line the switch for the main at Lorne siding, the Marshall local is back on the move toward Willmar. A log jam of grain trains waits ahead that will soon slow this trains progre... (more)
During the summer months this train typically makes the run from Altoona to the Twin Cities in daylight, but shorter days this time of year make this a nocturnal run. The train is a few minutes o... (more)
Coal loads accelerate out of the siding at Clara City after a three way meet.
Right on time.
A set of six SD40-2s leads the daily Chicago to Huron SD freight west through the Minnesota River Valley. A unit DDG train is holding the siding at Judson just ahead.
The smoke from local grass fires creates a unique haze around this eastbound Lincoln to Northtown freight. The train is accelerating out of Atwater, MN after meeting a westbound.
A westbound crosses the Crow River about 2 miles before Paynesville.
A trio of CP veterines head east through Watkins, MN
A UP employee appreciation special crosses bridge crosses the Madison Street bridge in Eau Claire. The train ran from the Yard in Altoona to Chippewa Falls and back.
A smokey haze caused by numerous local grass fires surrounds a Lincoln to Northtown frieght as it slows for a meet in Atwater.
The Ford Hauler brings a string of empty auto racks through downtown Saint Paul. The bridge of the right is Union Pacific's Robert Street lift bridge.
This loaded grain train is just getting up to speed after coming off the interchange track with the DME in Florence, MN.
An empty all rail ore train heads up the Mississippi River past the Pepin Marina.