An eastbound gets underway off of the main at Murray, passing through the work zone where the CP is busy with grading work to extend the siding.
Coming in at 10,337' on the MP 93.6 detector, this is close to the longest train I've seen on the Paynesville Sub. You can see nearly the entire thing as it passes over the switch at Murray West ... (more)
An eastbound behind two GEVOs makes its way through Belgrade on a blustery spring morning. A maintenance of way worker gives the train a roll-by inspection as he and others wait for traffic to cl... (more)
A westbound autorack train with two UP SD60M's for power holds the main at Murray, waiting on an eastbound that's doing some work at Brooten. Unfortunately for me, the train would sit here until ... (more)
A morning climb up to the top of the Belgrade Co-op elevator yields this view of a CP train as it rolls into town on its way from Glenwood to points east.
A westbound grain train with a mix of ICE, NS, and CP power accelerates out of Murray Siding in the distance and makes its way through Belgrade as the sun breaks the horizon on another sub-zero wi... (more)
An eastbound Canadian Pacific train is silhouetted against a cold winter sunset just west of Belgrade on the former Soo Line.
With winds gusting to 50 mph and the windchill down to about -30F, much of the countryside is obscured by blowing snow as an eastbound CP train breaks through a drifted crossing. Viewed from a lo... (more)
The snow is really flying in the wake of train 491 as a trio of blue and yellow SD40-2s faces one more snow squall west of Belgrade on their trip across the Paynesville Subdivision.
A pair of dirty AC4400CW's sandwich ICE 103, a former SOO GP9, on a westbound train departing Murray during an early December snowstorm.
A single SD40-2 trundles west toward Glenwood with two Siemens generators in tow.
A perfect fall sunset punctuated by a passing train.
A westbound coming almost straight out of the sunrise at Belgrade on a crisp autumn morning.
A westbound Canadian Pacific train passes a stand of colorful trees on the west side of Belgrade.
A westbound empty crude oil train accelerates away from a meet at Murray Siding and heads toward a crew change at Glenwood Yard. The pooled UP power looked nice on an early fall evening.