For the second time today this BNSF consist heads through Elk River with a manifest train, this time heading west. The middle of the train can be seen off to the right coming down the hill.
A pair of ex Santa Fe units sweep through the curves in downtown Elk River heading west.
A pair of CSX visitors tug on 109 cars as they pull west on the old Milwaukee Road line through western Minnesota.
An overpowered merchandise train passes under one of the many bridges that span the tracks near the SD/MN border.
High priority merchandise from Northtown Yard to Laurel, MT.
The nightly H train from Northtown to Laurel, MT is right on time as it's CSX lead unit heads west into the sun.
The cool glow of a winter sunset illuminates this westbound priority merchandise train heading for Laurel, MT.
Everything is at a crawl today as frozen switches create headaches for everyone. I have taken plenty of photos from the bridge in this shot.
Finally some snow!
High Priority Merchandise - Northtown Yard - Laurel, MT.
A lot of grain cars on the nightly H train today. High Priority Merchandise - Northtown, MN - Laurel, MT.
A pair of dash 2s tug hard on their long mixed freight. High Priority Merchandise - Northtown, MN - Laurel, MT.
The nightly H train is just about to trip the detector. High Priority Merchandise - Northtown, MN - Laurel, MT.
Back on the move westbound with one working locomotive. High Priority Merchandise - Northtown, MN - Laurel, MT.
