It's a cold Minnesota night made evident by the icicles hanging off the roof of the St. Croix Valley Railroad office as the two geeps idle nearby keeping themselves warm.

Arriving and now departing under the cover of darkness, the crew on board CN 6024 calls RTC to say they are loaded out and ready to depart Fairlane and head back to Proctor with 144 loads of tacon... (more)

A couple of old DM&IR M.o.W. carts rest near the end of the track while a 120 car string of old DM&IR quad sets rest waiting for warmer weather and the return (hopefully) to BFT service.

Lady Liberty gets some work done at Conway.

An out bound Metra passenger train heads north out of Chicago Union Station. Construction equipment can be seen on the left preparing the ground for a new high rise apartment building along the ri... (more)

The CofG heritage unit hangs out by the turntable.

The UP 1983 was turned on the wye in Battle Creek and will lead west on A451 to Gibson. NOTE: Chicago Sub should not have been in the Location Field. This is actually the dividing point of t... (more)

An Amtrak passenger train speeds past a Norfolk Southern trailer train through the Arcelor Mittal steel complex in East Chicago, Indiana. The red signals can be seen glistening off the tops of the... (more)

Burlington Northern's patriotically-painted SD60M no. 1991 takes on an almost ghostly appearance as it rolls east away from the setting sun west of Rozet, Wyoming in July 1991. A pretty wicked sto... (more)

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Normally no train passes by this elegant ex-Rutland station at night. It took an odd set of circumstances, an Iron Road Excursion train of private cars being re-routed up Vermont Rail System, to o... (more)

A relief crew arrives by van to take these pellet loads back to Proctor, MN while a T-Bird train inches up along side to illuminate the train so the new crew can release the handbrakes before take... (more)

A pair of SD90MACs lead a westbound empty grain past the elevator at Meadows.

CN O908 heads west as the last rays of sunshine dip below the horizon line.