RCPE MMNAU rounds the bend into Springfield, passing the massive elevator just east of town.

MNAU heads west out of Springfield.

After stopping to pick up a long cut of cars from the siding at Cobden, a westbound RCPE trackage rights train accelerates toward Springfield in some of the last light of a long late spring day.

After waiting for the Canadian Pacific to deliver a BNSF grain train to the elevator in the distance, the Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern's Mankato, MN to Aurora, SD manifest is back on the move on a... (more)

The westbound CP local out of New Ulm passes the elevator in downtown Springfield, MN. This imposing old structure would only last another year and a half before it was torn down in the spring of ... (more)

RCPE's Mankato turn heads west out of Springfield towards home in Aurora, SD. The city was originally named "Burns" when the CNW extended their line to here in 1877.

A westbound Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern train passes by the power at the Harvest Land Cooperative elevator near Springfield, MN. The Harvest Land engine started life as a Detroit, Toledo & Ironto... (more)

In a couple of previous posts, I showed a couple of eastbound trains coming through downtown Springfield, MN, illustrating the view before a... (more)

A single GEVO leads Canadian Pacific train 470 eastbound along the former Chicago & North Western "ALCO Line" across southern Minnesota, passing through the small town of Springfield. This was tak... (more)

An eastbound Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern train briefly disrupts life in the quiet small town of Springfield, MN on a nice July morning.

I first caught this RCPE train in New Ulm before having to wait out some road construction east of Sleepy Eye. As the fall evening light sweetened even more, I raced to get ahead of them again her... (more)

CNW Alcos roll along near Springfield in 1980. Before long the 1st generation Alco's would be retired and the more modern units like 4244 would be transferred east to work CNW lines in Wisconsin a... (more)

Two SD's and a rare extended cab Geep fly west with the daily 277 train to Huron.

A grain train slowly crawls across the 10mph track, the wind blowing the exhaust to the side. This is a much improved scene on today's DM&E.

Nice looking geep at the Harvest Land Co-op elevator.