A westbound train of coal cars going back to the mine cruises through Motley
An empty coal train with new CP hoppers passes through Buxton. In a few seconds, this train will meet up with a merchandise train on its way north to Grand Forks
The ILSX 1391, belonging to the newly formed Dakota Northern Railroad, sits by its lonesome on the main track in the railroad's home town of Grafton
A seven car Drayton local passes over its final crossing before entering the Grand Forks yard
In a scene straight out of 1992 or 1993...a dual-window SD60M leads an empty coal train west through Brainerd. The stucture in the background is the city's historical water tower, otherwise known ... (more)
The M-DILLAU (General Merchandise-Dilworth, MN to Laural, MT) passes under the signal bridge marking the beginning of the Jamestown Subdivision
A rather short merchandise train travels west through the Red River Valley of eastern North Dakota. Note that you can see the entire train in this picture.
After cresting at 37.18 feet, the 5th highest level in history, the level of the Red River when I took this photo was 34.28 feet. Compare this photo to Railroad: General Motors Locomotive Group (EMDX)Locomotive: EMD SD60Location: Fargo, North Dakota, USALocomotive #: EMD 9040Train ID: UnknownPhoto Date: April 08, 2006
A UP merchandise train exercises its trackage rights over the BNSF as it heads south, having just entered the Hinckley Subdivision at CTC Boylston
A couple of oldies lead this stack train to the Dilworth yard for a crew change
A BNSF and NS locomotive team up to take this merchandise train west. The cloud in the background is from all the snow this train is kicking up.
A Z-train rounds the curve coming into Hawley (note that the second unit is the BN 9670, an SD70MAC - a rare locomotive breed for such a high priority train)
An empty coal train moves slowly across the diamonds in Moorhead as a track inspector (whose truck is on the right) waits to work on them
A trio of locomotives is on the move between the Dilworth yard and the Fargo yard. Two days later, the first two units will be seenmore)
The BN 9208 heads into the siding at Hillsboro to meet another coal train heading north toward Grand Forks
