A very late freight from Grand Forks to Cass Lake is bathed in golden light as the pair of BN veterans pulls its way eastward at sunset.
The old geeps flex their muscles and smoke it up as they roar westward through Mallory after meeting an eastbound on the siding in Fisher.
The "old" Cass Lake to Grand Forks train rolls westward through the fields of western Minnesota behind a duo of cascade green cousins.
The daily manifest from Northtown Yard to Noyes, MN, is kicking up quite a bit of snow as it rushes eastward and forces this photographer to shoot and run.
Clay Boswell coal loads roll eastward with a GEVO leading the way.
It's getting harder and harder to find an all SD75 Warbonnet lashup these days, but it's a much easier feat when there's only one pulling the train! Grain empties eastbound through western Minnes... (more)
A late Noyes Local steams east through the prairie land of western Minnesota under picture-perfect skies behind its usual lashup of classic Geep power.
Rumbling eastward across the generally featureless Northern Plains is a unit grain train with a horrid looking warbonnet and a much nicer looking GEVO leading the way.
A fairly new BNSF ACe leads empty Clay Boswell coal across western Minnesota elephant-style with a pair of older generation coal power. Note sure what's up with the weird green paint on the MAC t... (more)
The Noyes Local steams east with a clear warrant to Noyes JCT.
Clay Boswell coal loads in Minnesota.
A trio of MACs has this loaded coal train thundering east through Mallory on a bitterly cold morning.
Where have all the SD60s/SD60Ms/SD75Ms/SD75Is gone?!? That's all you used to see on coal trains up here, but the winds of change might have blown through on 'traditional' northern plains coal pow... (more)
A trio of units hurtles east through the near ghost town of Mallory at the maximum track speed of 49 MPH.
I get a friendly wave from the left seater as BNSF 5298 with two EMDs elephant away from E. Grand Forks...