A westbound RCPE train is being tied down in the distance as the remnants of a recent derailment await further cleanup in the small town of Elkton, SD.

Originally built as a Southern Pacific SD45, a former Arizona Central SD40M-2 leads a westbound Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern train across southwest Minnesota on a perfect late summer evening.

Just after the sun dipped below the horizon, an eastbound Twin Cities & Western train makes its way along the Minnesota Prairie Line between Fairfax and Gibbon, MN.

A westbound Twin Cities & Western train passes the restored Minneapolis & St Louis Railway depot in Fairfax, MN.

As prairie grasses and wildflowers sway in the breeze, a westbound Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern train negotiates the undulating track just west of town where the railroad crosses Plum Creek.

Three veteran EMDs lead a westbound train through the hills of the Buffalo Ridge near Lake Benton, MN. The lead locomotive is a former Arizona Central SD40M-2, originally built as an SD45 for the ... (more)

A songbird perches on a telegraph pole that dates back to days of the Chicago & North Western as a westbound Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern train traverses the rolling Minnesota countryside just eas... (more)

The Union Pacific's local out of Worthington, MN rounds a curve as it heads southbound through northwest Iowa on the former Omaha Road mainline.

An Otter Tail Valley Railroad GP40 still in Burlington Northern green sits with a couple other EMD's in Fergus Falls on a nice spring morning in 2019.

The Elbow Lake Co-op's SW9, leased from Independent Locomotive Service, works to load another shuttle train for CPKC on a July morning in west central Minnesota.

Two of the Red River Valley & Western's newest motive power acquisitions, some former BNSF SD70MAC's, rest in the yard at Breckenridge on a warm summer morning.

On yet another hazy summer evening, a westbound light power move consisting of 27 locomotives heading for storage in Glendive, MT nears Dilworth Yard, seen just west of Glyndon, MN.

A southbound BNSF train of dried distillers grain climbs toward the US Highway 14 overpass at Florence, MN, dodging some cloud shadows along the way.

A train slowly makes its way west through Belview, MN on a sweltering July evening as the boys of the Rigge family look on from the platform of the nicely restored Minneapolis & St Louis Railway d... (more)

A Twin Cities & Western crew has arrived at one of the western-most customers on the Minnesota Prairie Line and is proceeding to pick up and set out covered hoppers at the elevator in Echo, MN. Th... (more)