Railroad Crossing by Chad Kluck

08/28/2025

The Hugo Job, led by Minnesota Commercial 49, a 1981 General Electric B30-7 locomotive, formerly owned by the C&O, proceeds north of White Bear Lake/Bald Eagle on the morning of August 28, 2025.

12/01/2024

On the way to Urgent Care for a bloody nose that wouldn't stop. Saw the lights coming so I had to pull over and do some train watching. I would have had to wait at the crossing anyway. It's always train time whether you have a tissue shoved up your nose or not.

06/22/2024

Some crossing signal pics in Charles City, Iowa - May 4, 2024

06/15/2024

Union Pacific 5455 (GE AC45CCTE) leads grain cars south through Manly, Iowa, on May 4, 2024.

06/01/2024

In October 2023, I had the chance to visit Bob Rivards Soo Line Layout which depicts the northern Twin Cities in 1977. Many scenes are still recognizable today in real life! The HO scale layout is massive and was fun to imagine back in the year I was born!

05/28/2024

From Classic Trains: EMD NW5: a light road-switcher diesel that didn’t
By David Lustig

Of the three that remain today, "Great Northern 192 is displayed at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth, Minn."

Although some units proved long-lived, the EMD NW5 sold just 13 copies.     Although the pre-World War II EMD NW3 was not a stellar seller, after cessation of hostilities in 1945, the builder was keen on revisiting the idea in order to mine the light switcher market dominated by the Alco RS1 and B...

05/28/2024

May 3, 2024 I caught Canadian National 8885 as it headed out of Humboldt Yard in Northeast Minneapolis.

04/30/2024

Crossed into the U.S. yesterday as it heads to Minot, N.D. the Empress was built in 1930.

A restored steam locomotive, nearly a century old, is on a North American tour to celebrate the completion of a continental rail connection from Canada to the United States and Mexico.

02/01/2024

Start clearing your calendars as the Empress 2816, a 4-6-4 Hudson-type steam locomotive built in 1930, tours from Canada to Mexico along the CPKC!

Canadian Pacific 2816 will kick off its tri-nation tour in Calgary on April 24 and arrive in Mexico City on June 4.

02/01/2024

Minneapolis Great Northern Station (1977)

Photo by Steve Glischinski

01/27/2024

Light January fog in Withrow, Minnesota