Canadian Pacific's movers and shakers opted to take the less popular route to attend meetings in St. Paul. The southern transcon through North Dakota is often the favored route, but with the hopes... (more)

Fresh from rebuild, a trio of CP's AC4400CWM's hustle 100 sand loads westbound at Elbow Lake. Shoving on the rear, is another like locomotive, also on its maiden voyage.

Just underway out of Fergus, the OTV local rolls above Vine St, on its way to interchange with the BNSF in Dilworth. The mornings dense fog advisory is slowly burning off just after sunrise.

A mere 25 years after the railroad ceased to be, a trio of good ol' fashioned BN green can still be seen out and about, though relegated to local duty. Today, the first day of December, finds a... (more)

A rolling military tribute by CP flies past a stationary one compliments of the city of Miltona, MN, on a cloudy but mild Thanksgiving day 2020.

An eastbound CWR train, complete with a caboose, makes its way towards Alexandria. The train had sat in Parkers for the better part of two weeks before going north to TR Falls, and coming back so... (more)

Canadian Pacific's new ACu's are certainly nothing new anymore, but up until this 381 grain empty, I had not seen photographed one, let alone two special paints. The 7021 and 7017 are in charge o... (more)

Just out from the siding back in town, a pair of veteran EMD products have their rail train back up to speed curving around Elbow Lake.

Departing Glenwood shortly after H99, the 6043 has the spray train well under control just south of Forada, MN.

Back in the Milwaukee Road days, Montevideo was a crew change point between the Twin Cities and Aberdeen. The section was purchased by a new railroad in the early 90's, the Twin Cities & Wester... (more)

When Milwaukee road was in its heyday, their double track main though the western Minnesota prairies did encounter several river valleys on its way west. One such spot, known as Watson Sag still e... (more)

In the 30 minutes that the West End job went to Appleton light power, picked up 25 loads of grain, and left town, the county plow made several passes at the crossing and built up a nice plow ridge... (more)

Only a couple miles from home rails, RCP&E's MNAU train departs Tracy after lining the West Switch. While the influx of GW orange and yellow is a disappointment to some who favored the DM&E's b... (more)

A Saturday regular, the M-MNAU train out of Mankato, MN is back on home rails and is headed to Florence to tie down, but not before passing under highway 14 at Balaton, MN

An old Soo Line Rusell plow earns its keep this winter. Above average snow fall has necessitated yet another trip for this old beast. A trusty GP38-2 provides the power today as WDL-10 hits drift... (more)