A former Soo Line steam locomotive calls this small museum in Tracy, MN home. It's been modified with an enormous balloon stack, renumbered and lettered for the Chicago & North Western, and had it... (more)

A lengthy westbound RCPE train curves through the scenic hills of the Buffalo Ridge just south of Lake Benton, MN. Just ahead, they will curve to the northwest and head toward the South Dakota bor... (more)

After sitting overnight at the siding at Florence, MN, a westbound RCPE train has a new crew and is on its way toward Aurora and Huron, SD, seen crossing a small trestle just east of Tyler on this... (more)

One of the first CPKC trains I've taken a picture of in the form of the Paynesville Sub wayfreight, westbound near Belgrade, MN, looks identical to a Canadian Pacific train.

A former BN locomotive still in Cascade Green paint switches cars at the west end of Willmar Yard.

A pair of Twin Cities & Western locomotives brings a train of empty covered hoppers destined for the elevator in Echo, MN through Belview, passing the restored Minneapolis & St Louis Railway depot... (more)

A mixture of GE and EMD power leads a lengthy Northtown Yard to Laurel, MT manifest westbound onto the former Northern Pacific Jamestown Subdivision at KO Jct, a few miles west of Casselton, ND.

Westbound coal empties soar above the Sheyenne River valley at Valley City, ND.

After waiting on some westbound traffic to clear, a track geometry train hustles east out of Dilworth Yard, seen just west of Glyndon.

An eastbound BNSF intermodal train powers its way upgrade into Lake Park on a windy and chilly spring morning with snow still on the ground.

The flow of commerce beneath the cliffs of the Dayton's Bluff neighborhood on the southeast side of Saint Paul is nearly constant, whether it's by river, road, or rail. It's certainly one of the b... (more)

Just minutes after Amtrak's eastbound Empire Builder departed Saint Paul Union Depot, Union Pacific makes an appearance at Division Street. Two SD40N's are in full dynamics as they ease a lengthy ... (more)

After a long, snowy winter, it's finally beginning to feel like spring in Minnesota as the sun comes out from behind some clouds and shines on the eastbound Empire Builder departing Saint Paul.

Two Twin Cities & Western GP38-2s rest beside the Richard W. Sears Memorial Park in North Redwood, MN. The small depot is a replica of the Minneapolis & St Louis Railway structure that once stood ... (more)

Near the end of a nice early spring day, the Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern's westbound Mankato, MN to Aurora, SD train pulls down the main at Judson to meet Canadian Pacific's eastbound Tracy, MN t... (more)