Having made the slow trek west to the far end of the Minnesota Prairie Line, RRVW 2005 and TCWR 2300 are underway eastbound again with a string of coal cars that need to be moved from storage.

A pair of light engines aren't holding up much traffic in downtown Wood Lake as they make their way west to retrieve some cars from storage. The cars they're tasked with picking up are coal hopper... (more)

Red River Valley & Western 2628 and 2018 back their train into the western section of the yard and cross the Bois de Sioux River separating Wahpeton, North Dakota and Breckenridge, Minnesota. Tim... (more)

A quiet Saturday afternoon finds these two patiently waiting their turn to do their thing.

A quiet Saturday afternoon finds numerous units from both the RRVW and the TCW patiently waiting their turn to do their thing.

A quiet Sunday afternoon finds this unit locomotives patiently waiting its next assignment.

A pair of RRVW SD70MAC's at Breckenridge, MN.

A Twin Cities & Western train rests on the Minnesota Prairie Line east of Morton, MN. The train was completely stopped and shut down near a grade crossing, waiting for a new crew to take it east t... (more)

At sunset, an eastbound train crosses the Redwood River on the Minnesota Prairie Line at North Redwood, MN.

An eastbound train crosses Crow Creek on its way through the Minnesota River valley between North Redwood and Morton, MN. The concrete and steel structure replaced a wooden trestle back in summer ... (more)

An eastbound train on the Minnesota Prairie Line passes the restored Minneapolis & St Louis Railway depot at Fairfax.

Working its way toward Minneapolis with some grain loads from North Redwood, an eastbound train crosses Sulphur Lake near the former Minneapolis & St Louis Railway division point of Morton, MN. It... (more)

An eastbound train rolls along the Minnesota Prairie Line between Fairfax and Gibbon. The vast and fertile farmland of west central Minnesota would normally be covered in a blanket of deep snow at... (more)

Evidence of some work on the Excel Energy transmission lines sits nearby as an eastbound train slowly makes its way along the Minnesota Prairie Line east of Franklin, MN on a breezy but mild Febru... (more)

On the first day of 2024, F-JAMJAM as its known on the BNSF system is Red Rivers turn that runs on BNSF trackage from Jamestown, ND to Casselton, and back. Here, it flies above the town of Valley... (more)