CP 2224 and 2200 bring empty hoppers east along 110 plus year old rail on the Plummer Line - the original Soo Line Thief River Falls to Duluth mainline. In reality, the railroad split from the ma... (more)

CP 7056 leads train 240 across the Red Lake River in Thief River Falls with extra grain traffic, CPKC 346, along for the ride down the Detroit Lakes Subdivision mainline.

Celebrating 25 years of railroading, NPR 2283 wears a basic blue and yellow paint scheme to honor Northern Plains Railroad. NPR has worked former Soo Line Wheat Lines in North Dakota and Minnesot... (more)

Mixed freight traffic eases through the siding track at Sauntry (Solon Springs) after meeting opposing traffic. Sauntry is the first siding within single track territory south of Hawthorne where ... (more)

CN 3075 leads manifest traffic up the Superior Subdivision mainline at Exeland, Wisconsin after meeting three opposing movements at Murray.

Manifest traffic traverses the short peninsula at Point Park while departing Fort Frances, Ontario down the CN Rainy Subdivision. The crew is staring down the cantilever bridge spanning the headw... (more)

Semaphore blades and code poles...these classic railroad mechanisms align the right-of-way of the Raton and Glorieta subdivisions in New Mexico where Amtrak's Southwest Chief traverses the ... (more)

After stepping off the Southwest Chief in La Junta, I find myself pacing the train along the Raton Subdivision on U.S. Route 350. The Chief is running at its maximum track speed of ... (more)

Twice per day, the magnetic flagman manufactured by Griswold wigs and wags back and forth for the passing of Amtrak's Southwest Chief. This grade crossing signal is the last of its kind al... (more)

The Empire Builder arrives into St. Cloud for a crew change nine hours late with a surprise (to me) leader. With a quick crew change here in St. Cloud, the train gained an hour by arriving... (more)

Noyes is busy place on a Monday afternoon! The crew of the Grand Forks - Noyes train cut off the front two locomotives and are in the process of tying them down while their train is on the main. ... (more)

CP 299 passes over the Bradley Coulee bridge as it eases closer to the U.S. - Canada border crossing. The train will change crews and get scanned at the border before it continues to Winnipeg.

A westbound manifest cruises through Lake Elmo after a lengthy wait at Hudson, Wisconsin.

The Northern Plains Thief River Falls Turn travels west through Radium as it nears Warren along the former Soo Line's Wheat Line. After Warren the train will head straight west into the Red River... (more)

The Minnesota Northern Warroad Local plows through a big drift the day after fresh snowfall on its way to St. Hilaire for some routine switching at the southern end of the Warroad Subdivision.