A clean and sparkling GP38-2 leads a TEC train east across the snowy Minnesota countryside on a clear January morning.
Two bandits leading this train west provided the final treat on a day where I saw a lot of different power along the CP.
A well-worn warrior leads another bruised comrade across Minnesota. You can see the broken numberboard on the trailing 9610, evidence of an earlier grade crossing accident.
I'll take these any day over a new GE.
New leads old on the daily merchandise train from St. Paul as they approach the Glenwood yard.
A westbound with three EMD's in the lashup nears Glenwood. Power for the train: CP 8851, CP 4511, SOO 6039, SOO 6058. As far as I could tell, the SD60's were offline, DIT.
The snow is flying in Minnesota in October! The 198 is the first train for several hours and kicks up lots of fresh powder from the tracks as it flies around a curve east of Sedan.
A westbound rolls into Sedan, just a few miles shy of Glenwood.
As the sun breaks over the trees and the fog begins to lift off the fields, another CP train nears a rural grade crossing east of Glenwood.
A lengthy 290 train rounds a curve east of Sedan.
Canadian Pacific's daily manifest from Winnipeg to St. Paul rounds a curve east of Sedan on a beautiful morning.
A westbound is seen a few miles west of Brooten. The second unit is Red River Valley & Western 4100, a Caterpillar-powered GP15C that was originally a PRR GP9.
An eastbound behind a CEFX leaser leans into the curve at MP 110, a few miles east of Sedan. Click here to see a wider shot of th... (more)
A pair of gevos hustle east with a short priority intermodal train on a warm summer morning.
CP 8535 leads a manifest just west of Sedan, MN.
