Ex Northern Plains #1022 now working at Hoffman, MN.

With greens through town, the 6042 and its rail train highball past the siding in the last minutes of daylight.

Pro-Ag. On the hazy and hot afternoon of August 1, 2021, Pro-Ag Farmers Co-op 1022 (ex-NPR 5558, née-CP 5701, SD40-2, 2/1975) sits next the silos at the Pro-Ag in Hoffman, Minnesota. This ... (more)

Just before things flatten out on the prairies of western Minnesota, a few rolling hills gridded with gravel township roads can be a neat backdrop for trains traversing the Elbow Lake Sub. Like h... (more)

Solo CP 2250 heads west at Hoffman, MN.

The business train heads over the former Soo Line trestle in Hoffman. The Soo Line lettering is still noticeable if you look close enough, although quite faded.

Hotshot intermodal CP 198 heads over the impressive Chippewa River trestle in Hoffman.

After being handed off to the CP in St. Paul, MN, windmill blades make their way west through western Minnesota.

If you're going to see nothing but dirty and crusty GEs, you might as well see five of them on one train. Westbound train 293 crosses the bridge east of Hoffman on a very windy March afternoon.

After being talked by a couple signals, NS 1128 has train 581 back on the move toward Hoffman. Today is only the second day of CTC operation on this part of the line. There are still a lot of bug... (more)

Behind a matched pair of CP beavers, 198 makes good time east for Glenwood after meeting one at Nashua and restoring west Hoffman.

A Northern Plains Railroad SD40-2 has somehow found its way south to the elevator track in Hoffman where it sits on a sunny but cold January day.

A brightly repainted SD60 trails a dingy AC4400CW on train 498 as it departs Hoffman and heads toward Glenwood on another bitterly cold January day. They would only make it as far as Lowry before... (more)

A fine sight on a clear October day: three refurbished and repainted EMDs lead a grain train across the bridge just east of Hoffman. I still can't help but think this would have been even better ... (more)

One of CP's newer rebuilt locomotives was set out in Hoffman by a westbound manifest earlier in the morning and is now hard at work loading a grain train at the elevator in town.