A grain train from Grafton, ND, rolls southward into Grand Forks behind a single Dash 9.

The Drayton Local has pulled to a stop north of Grand Forks as a crewmember does some work between the locomotives, one of which happens to be a classic BN GP50.

A whiteface and a bluebonnet breeze back into Grand Forks after spending the night at the sugar plant in Drayton.

A nice still BN logo bearing geep hauls the Drayton Local back into town on a pleasant September morning.

The pair of bluebonnets currently assigned to the Drayton Local rolls past the Minn-Dak Milling elevator on the way back into Grand Forks.

An early SD70ACe and an older SD70MAC cousin have Ardoch coal empties halted at MP 2 while the interlocking clears ahead.

A pair of cascade green geeps rolls back into Grand Forks as the sun already begins to sag in the sky on one of the shortest days of the year.

A fairly new NRE rebuild leads a decent sized Drayton Local back to Grand Forks, about to bang across the diamond over the former Northern Pacific Manitoba main line.

A nice pair of cascade green geeps leads today's Drayton Local back to the Grand Forks yard.

The Tramp Job sets a lumber car out as bad order at the Cenex facility north of Grand Forks. Believe it or not, the Minn-Dak Milling elevator on the left is home to North America's largest buckwhe... (more)

One of the best locomotives to find on the point of a train today, BNSF 1497, an extremely rare GP15-1, leads the Drayton Local south toward Grand Forks in the last light of the day.

After a very rare meet at Manvel with the Langdon Turn, the Drayton Local approaches Calspur on its return trip to Grand Forks. The conductor gives me a friendly wave as the train heads straight i... (more)

The Greenface SD60M is sandwiched by 1/13 of BNSF's fleet of SD75Is as Ardoch coal empties head for the mines. The train will likely be held up for a while at Miles City, MT, however, where track ... (more)

The Drayton Local passes through Calspur while a unit grain train sorts cars in the background.

With a little "luck", the St. Patrick's Day skies cleared over Grand Forks as the Drayton Local buzzed back into town.