DME 6615 climbs Stockton Hill with a westbound train as it leaves Winona, MN and the Mississippi River valley in September of 1993.

Back in 2006 we have an eastbound crawling along into New Hampton. If a guy had to stop to get the west siding switch at New Hampton back normal, then you were in a for a fight to get going again.... (more)

Back in 2006 storm clouds roll off to the east as this westbound Mason City bound freight train passes just west of New Hampton. The train is around 45 miles from it's destination at Mason. The 62... (more)

Tucked away in the KCS-MILW Joint Agency Yard (more commonly known as Knoche Yard, shared by Kansas City Southern and Canadian Pacific) is a pair of SD40s: Dakota Minnesota & Eastern 6092 is the ... (more)

DME 6615 brings a grain train thru Lewiston, MN in September of 1993. The building in the foreground has since been removed.

Dragging out of the siding with an ailing CIT leaser trailing, an IC&E Kansas City, MO-St Paul, MN freight continues north to the Twin Cities.

South Siding Switch Camanche was the place to be, with blue & yellow power still preferred over CP leasers approximately 18 months after the takeover. While the town is named after the Indian Nat... (more)

DM&E 6368 leads CP 472 east into Elgin.

CP 258 rumbles through Taylor Yard at MP 673 on the CP Sunbury Sub with a DME/CEFX/ICE trio. Both the DME and ICE units have since been retired off the CP system.

GMD built SD40, DM&E 6087 sports what gives the unit an odd look in the fact that the air reservoirs aren't in their normal location but rather mounted within the carbody although not many notice ... (more)

Most times I didn't cared for unmatched consists, but sometimes it didn't matter either! I am still not happy with the red bomb on the point, but man to see this stuff now days would be pretty cra... (more)

A former Milwaukee Road SD40-2 heads east through Argo, bound for a crew change at CSX' Barr Yard. In Argo Yard, an SW1500/slug set waits to go about its business.

Coming through the curves eastbound approaching Cut-Off, DME 6362 will take the restricting and head into Muskego. There under the direction of the GY, they'll make a setout and pickup before depa... (more)

The DM&E Boys took over the IMRL property on July 29, 2002. 2 months later I believe the crew toured the property with their DM&E business train. Here the Austin local is southbound on the Owatonn... (more)