No. 7 heads out of downtown over the bike trail and across the Big Sioux River bridge.

Ellis & Eastern No. 17 wakes up the Phillips Avenue neighborhood while making the morning run into downtown Sioux Falls with a loaded gon to interchange with the BNSF.

Ellis & Eastern No. 17 and 27 are about to duck under 12th Street in Sioux Falls as they make the morning run into downtown Sioux Falls with 11 cars of sand and four empty cement hoppers. No. 17 i... (more)

Ellis & Eastern No. 7 eases across the bike trail in Sioux Falls while returning to home base on the western end of the city.

An Ellis & Eastern crew works the downtown Sioux Falls yard at Eighth Street. Number 7, an SW1200, and Number 17, an SW900, handle the duties today.

Ellis & Eastern No. 7 charges up the hill through central Sioux Falls.

Three ES44ACs pull an empty coal train from Alliance near the end of the run on the approach to the crew change at Edgemont.

BNSF ES44AC leads a westbound past Pepin Marina in Pepin, Wis. This is on BNSF's St. Croix Subdivision along the Mississippi River.

Union Pacific makes a rare appearance in South Dakota as power for the Dakota & Iowa Railroad as it hauls a ballast train behind its usual empty rock cars heading back to Dell Rapids from Sioux Ci... (more)

Ten minutes after sunset, a BNSF eastbound rounds the bend at Trempealeau on the Mississippi River.

BNSF 1102 leads a freight down the Mississippi River across a creek just south of Maiden Rock, Wis.

The Garden Job crosses a small bridge over the causeway between Lake of the Isles and Lake Calhoun in Minneapolis. The job is heading back to Southtown yard in south Minneapolis after running out ... (more)

A lone SD40-2 leads C&NW’s daily southbound past the Oconto depot. Built about 1910, the brick depot became an eyesore in later years. An attempt was made to save it in the 1990s, but it was tor... (more)

In its last days running as a Chicago & North Western freight, the daily Escanaba to Green Bay train blares its way through Oconto as winter gives way to spring. The Marinette Sub offered four bl... (more)

An empty auto rack train glistens in a late afternoon sun as it rounds the curve at Thompson Hill.