A nice suprise after work on Tuesday afternoon made the trip by the BNSF North La Crosse Yard worthwhile.

The Dilworth - BRC Priority Manifest leaves the North La Crosse Yard. It's nice to see the EMDs back in service again!

A nice mixture of engines for DME train 170. This train met its northbound counterpart about 10 miles north at Kains.

The CP delivered a continuous welded rail train to the DM&E at Goodview, MN. In the photo, a DM&E crew takes the train west on jointed rail that will be replaced by CWR in the future. This train... (more)

The eastbound parade continues as a very short train 198 rounds the corner at Donehower.

An ex-Milwaukee Road engine leads train 487 on ex-Milwaukee Road tracks at Dakota, MN.

CITX lease engine sitting in the yard at LaCrescent.

I don't ordinarily shoot CP GEs these days, but this one was special. Train 666-006, crew called at 0600 on 03/06/2010.

Empty Unit Ethanol Train heads uphill through the Stockton Valley.

DM&E Train 171-03 heads west along the Mississippi River. This train was tied down in the siding at Kains on the DM&E Marquette Subdivision on Friday, March 5. The next day a dog-catch crew was ... (more)

DM&E Train 170-05 snakes through an S-curve along the Mississippi River between Brownsville and Reno, MN.

DM&E Train 171 passes train 487 in Goodview. A CP crew tied 487 down earlier in the afternoon and a DM&E crew showed up a short while after 171 went by. You have to love all the blue and yellow!

DME train 171 heads north along a thawing Mississippi River north of the Whitman Dam.

DM&E train 170 passes over the Root River after making a pick-up of pipe in the LaCrescent, MN Yard.

Grandpa brought his Grandson down to the tracks to watch the train roll by at 10 mph. When I started chasing this train around dawn it had the SOO 6053 leading the CP 9552. They met DM&E train 1... (more)