Two Pacman 40s lead the way as a high/wide load inches eastward over the Red River under the close watch of several personnel. The train, bound for Calgary, was received in Duluth, MN, and ran via... (more)
An ill-sounding bluebird leads the way as the Mayville Local quietly rolls back into Grand Forks.
After Amtrak clears off to the south, the daily local gets underway behind a duo of cascade green. The snow on the ground would not last for another month.
With its sweet Nathan P3 blaring, BNSF 2280 and a recently painted brother head out of town for a run to Cass Lake and back.
The three heritage paint schemes are in proper order as the Grand Forks to Northtown manifest accelerates southward toward Fargo.
A Grand Forks to Northtown manifest rumbles southward out of Merrifield with one Dash 9 on each end. DPUs are suddenly becoming common on manifests as winter dies off into a very early spring.
Back when it looked like North Dakota may actually have a real winter, a freight unit lends a hand to a very late eastbound Empire Builder accelerating southward out of Grand Forks.
North Dakota Mill, the largest flour mill in the United States, and the only one that is state-owned, towers over the 3404 as it goes about its switching.
A pair of cascade green geeps leads the Devils Lake Local eastward on the return trip into Grand Forks. It is rumored that BNSF will soon resume through-traffic operations on this line. Currently ... (more)
A one-unit coal empty rolls westward through downtown on a pleasant afternoon.
The City Job crosses over the Red River into East Grand Forks. The sound of the GP30 rebuild is hard to beat. Photo taken with a Canon PowerShot S95.
A quartet of GE power rolls into Fisher with a manifest from Grand Forks to Superior.
A grain train from Grafton, ND, rolls southward into Grand Forks behind a single Dash 9.
A grain train accelerates eastward out of Grand Forks en route to its next work at Crookston, MN.
In a scene straight out of the early 90s, a pair of cascade green SD60Ms switches cars at the former Burlington Northern yard in Crookston, which is now the interchange point between BNSF and the ... (more)