Eastbound CP coal load led by two 90MACs and an ACe
Red, White, and SOO: Short on time, and work to do in Winona, H20 screams East along US HWY 61. No rest for the weary on July 4th! Taken while off duty, wearing full PPE.
A stack train races past a barge working its way through Mississippi River Lock and Dam #5.
Indiana Rail Road power rolls up river bound for Flint Hills Resources in Rosemount, MN and another load of coke. Taken from John Latsch State Park.
Coal empties from the Columbia Energy Center outside Portage, WI head up the Mississippi River on Canadian Pacific tracks. The train will be handed back over to BNSF in the twin cities.
CP 199 rolls west along the Mississippi River seen 450 feet in the air. In the distance, two barge work through lock and dam No. 5.
Soo 6026, 6036, 6039, 6057, and 4431 glimmer in a pocket of Sunlight as they approach bass camp. It was getting a bit tricky finding places with sun this late in the day, but boy was it worth it!
DME train 171 heads north along a thawing Mississippi River north of the Whitman Dam.
Soo 6011, 764 along the Mississippi.
Running fast out of Minnesota City.
This Gevo rolls east on the CP thru Whitman.
Skytop view of the skytop observation... Father and son watch the special head west.
The steam special returning westbound as seen from 450' up on an outlook in the John Latsch state park.
CP 2816 and Milwaukee Road 4-8-4 No. 261 are heading west from La Crosse, Wis., to Minneapolis smoking 'em up just west of Whitman.
CP 287 puts on a good show with one kick A$$ lash-up. I chased this train from Bangor (where i work) to Lake City, almost 100 miles even though I had to work the next morning at 5 AM. More to com... (more)