Outstate MN

note the BN logo on the sand tower

DPU tac MT's heading to the mines for another fill.

Havre MT. to Chicago IL. passing under the pedestrian bridge on a cold and blustery day after christmas.

Crossing the St. Croix river from MN into Wisconsin. no place to shoot from on the other side of the tracks.

UP officers special with the only operating DD40X in the world, crossing the St. Croix river bridge.

Dynanometer car being prepped for a truck ride from North Branch to the Iron Horse Central Railroad Museum near Chisago City, Minnesota.

an interesting consist for the BNSF Staples Sub.

passing the Amtrak Depot.

this is on a 7 mile road that appears to be a former RR grade.

brand new ES44DC # 7416 is the second unit.

Eastbound grain train leaving the single track behind.

on a dark and rainy day the St. Cloud local does some switching in the west end of the St. Cloud yard.

Loading a Herzog Ballast train.

leading an eastbound stacker past the Amtrak Depot.

leading a grain shuttle past the Amtrak Depot.

one of five units on the BNSF that still has the wig wag lights.

with a couple of smokey Oakways about to pass the Amtrak depot.

Imagine jumping on a train in Minneapolis right next to the Stone Arch bridge, heading northwest on the west banks of the Mississippi and arriving in St. Cloud. this is what you would see.

V-PTLBLU passign the Amtrak Depot.

Grizwold signals at the 440th Ave. crossing in Harris MN. complete with the stop signs not sure if they still work though. This line is the old NP "Skally" from St. Paul to Duluth.

Ex-NP Depot

Grizwold signals at the 3rd Ave SE crossing in Pine City MN. complete with stop signs, not sure if they still work though. this is the old NP "Skally" line from St. Paul to Duluth.

Grizwold signals at the 8th Ave SE crossing in Pine City MN. this is the old NP "Skally" line from St. Paul to Duluth.

Grain Shuttle on the BNSF Moorhead sub, holding for a train a head that is holding for one working in the siding. three trains at once on this sub is SUPER RARE.

looks like the first shot of the plow with its new paint :)

A grain Shuttle waiting for permission to head west, then north out of Breck. the giant grain facility looms behind, note the snow on the plow.

Shutter delay, and it was a total surprise, screwed this shot.

DPU on a shuttle train loading at the French Elevator.

Christmas day finds 3 coal trains parked in Staples. one is hiding and the leader of another is peaking out. Grab shot from the car @ 60 m.p.h.

sure is smoking alot for being a "clean" locomotive.

A "supercab" has been leading the local for awhile now. the're about to drop off there cars and nose up to there pickup and head back to Superior.

The neighborhood Shortline is using both locos today on there 50 car pick-up heading back towards Rush City. A few months later the peir on the right cracked exposing a larger crack in the original sandstone brick, resulting in the bridge being closed from May until Mid November 2009.

lots of power here today.

running wrong main through town.

Note the 5 buffer cars. there were 120 intermodal cans on flat cars with Explosive 2.1 placards and alot of DODX flats.......I know whats in here, you make your own assumptions.

M-GFDSUP leaving East Grand behind.

New to site!

599 is the third unit