With a boxcar of lumber sandwiched by a couple of centerbeams that are all destined for Beisser Lumber Company in Grimes, the local crosses Walnut Creek.

An overnight snowfall blankets blankets the landscape for a late Empire Builder.

The Grimes local with a single unit has just gone on duty, rocks its way side to side over old stick rail as it passes under a berry filled crab apple tree amid impending rain. It will travel eas... (more)

Waiting on equipment from train 28 at Spokane earlier in its journey, today's #8 is over 7 hours late. Despite the cold weather running with 3 units, the ground is bare of snow on this balmy 50 d... (more)

An intermodal train passes through Union Yard. The tower has since been removed and the 1936 built Bungee Grain elevator complex in the background has been converted to apartments.

Grainbelt 3636 is stored at Clinton OK.

The 5am loads were delayed ~ 3 hours as they pass through a small rock cut a few miles out of Babbitt.

Rail Works/TCWR 1206 at the Heartland Corn Products ethanol facility. This locomotive was originally built for the Milwaukee Road and later worked Dakota Rail.

Two Iowa Interstate Geeps for the Grimes Branch are parked for the overnight underneath a starlit sky.

Not everyday a palindrome shows up on the Iowa Interstate, but the 707 has been on the Grimes branch for the last couple of weeks. This morning it's headed east thru Windsor Heights with a LRS em... (more)

Z Chicago-Portland train derailed approximately 15 cars east of Big Lake MN early in the morning. The DP power and non derailed section is shown here.

Z Chicago-Portland train derailed approximately 15 cars east of Big Lake MN around 0315. Both RJ Corman and Hulcher are on scene working to clear both mains. Amtrak's eastbound and westbound Emp... (more)

Z Chicago-Portland train derailed at 172nd St NW east of Big Lake MN. Not sure if the switch for Midwest Lumber, across from the signal bungalow, was the culprit or not. Approximately 15 cars de... (more)

Photographed from the highway 95 overpass is a ballast empty to Dresser WI for loading.

'City of Bloomer' and a Golden West Service box car sit in the Northern Rail & Transload yard.