The nice thing about chasing RCPE's Mankato to Aurora train is that just about every little town along the way has something cool to shoot. Sanborn is no different. Here we see RCPE 3452 passing t... (more)
RCPE MMNAU rounds the bend into Springfield, passing the massive elevator just east of town.
RCPE 3452 rushes out of the small town of Cobden and over US 14 on the way to Aurora.
RCPE 3452 pulls a 70 car train west past the elevator at Essig.
The RCPE MMNAU heads west into New Ulm as they pass the little CPKC yard and town elevator.
RCPE 3452 leads the Mankato to Aurora train out of Mankato as they pass the former CNW depot in downtown.
GN 1720 sits dead in Northtown Yard awaiting its fate. Built in 1959 for the Colorado and Southern, 1720 is by far the oldest unit in the deadline.
CP 5044 crosses over the Mississippi River as they close in on Humboldt Yard.
CP 2208 leads an all EMD consist out of Humboldt Yard and over the Mississippi River.
BNSF 558 leads a BNCP transfer under the classic searchlight signal bridge at Hoffman.
A duo of warbonnet B40-8W's pulls the CP transfer south past Tunnel 1 at Westminster.
TCWR 2010 meets the Amtrak Borealis in downtown Saint Paul at Union Station.
A Twin Cities & Western train is reflected in some puddles left by melted snow as it works on the west side of Renville, MN.
A GATX GP38-2 works to switch cars at one of the small yards that's part of the ADM corn syrup plant complex in Marshall, MN as a northbound BNSF train passes on the main.
Four EMDs and a lone Dash 9 rest on the servicing tracks at Willmar on a nice late winter morning.