The Empire Builder is trying to make up a few minutes to arrive in Red Wing on time as it flies east at 80mph.
The glossy paint of two brand-new GEVO units is highlighted by the evening sun, as an intermodal streaks by on the BNSF Saint Croix Subdivision.
Two factory-fresh BNSF motors and a surprisingly clean warbonnet SD75 are kicking up snow while on the point of a CP coal train.
The bright headlights of CP 8757 shimmer off the side of a coal train as the Hastings Switcher idles in the yard.
A train that has died on hours is being leapfrogged by CP 198, a high-priority intermodal train.
Chasing the CP 9660 at expedited speed of 60mph.
ICE 6443 traverses the CP/BNSF crossovers at St. Croix tower. Lock and Dam 2 spans across the Mississippi here, as well.
An extremely rare lashup, including an MRL SD45-2, idles under an orange-tinted sky at Blackbird Siding. This is the first time I have used a spotlight for a night shot.
Pacing shot of CP 8552, nearing Treasure Island Casino on Ravenna Trail. Note the two layers of bluffs in the background.
A 150-car manifest led by SOO 6048 is clattering across the old Milwaukee Road bridge. It is one of only three railroad lift bridges over the Mississippi.
CP 4507 and caboose idle under a brutal thunderstorm, as the 8757 sneaks up from behind. 23:49hrs.
Milwaukee Road's northbound Morning Hiawatha's superdome was just off the Mississippi River Bridge about 18 miles southeast of St. Paul and almost 400 miles from Chicago, where it left at 9:30 a.m... (more)
A Dash 9, SD40M-2 and a realtivley rare GP60B cruise along below some houses with a magnificent view of the Mississippi River Valley
Three railroads represented on this Z train. BNSF, NS and CN cruise eastbound along the Mississippi.
The Hastings local is done for the day and rests next to the station with its caboose
