Nearly 5 hours late, the sun shines on the Empire Builder. Would the negative double digit temps have anything to do with this (only -8 at this time)?
Beggin' for a heritage paint job, this GP40 idles with others in St. Paul.
Having switched tracks, this locomotive heads back into the yard.
Back on the mainline, three GEs add to a stack train.
No reflection on the holding pond as it is frozen.
An A-B-A for the Minnesota Commercial as it waits to cross the BNSF at Park Jct.
Basking in early morning light, this string of empties splits a grove of trees. Minneapolis can be seen in the background.
A new wedgie pulls nearer to NTW on the wrong main.
A scheduled stop in Northtown before terminating in St. Paul. An odd mix pulls this train.
Heading back across the St. Paul sub.
Rounding the bend.
A unit from the Great White North and two CSX locomotives come from up north.
In a surprise, a shiny War Bonnet Santa Fe unit-led coal train, is over taken by G-DILNTW with a new ES44DC on the wrong main.
Passing Dayton's Bluff.
An old AC44, and new one and a leased CEFX 131.
