The sun followed these units to my lens on a mostly cloudy day. The Big MACs haul coke from Roseport, MN south towards Illinois and points south.

A coke train bound for Indiana is looking good skirting Lake Pepin, the purported birthplace of waterskiing.

The delicious INRD Big Macs thunder west as a 281 creeps up on their tail.

CP 800 eases up to the switch at Division Street to enter the BNSF St. Paul Sub. They'll continue east to St. Croix where they'll access the CP River Sub to Chicago.

CP 800 passes downtown St. Paul with a pair of INRD units. The red MAC's have been a common sight in the Twin Cities every few days on coke trains to and from Roseport.

INRD power crawls across the Robert Street Lift Bridge in downtown Saint Paul with coke empties for the Flint Hills Resources plant in Rosemount, MN.

The sun poked through with seconds to spare for a sharp looking pair of INRD SD9043MACs. This empty coke train is headed for Flint Hills Resources in Rosemount, MN.

Indiana Rail Road power rolls up river bound for Flint Hills Resources in Rosemount, MN and another load of coke. Taken from John Latsch State Park.

The classy Big MACs of the Indiana Railroad bring empty buckets through a cavern of trees on their way through Wisconsin. Ultimately they will be loaded with coke at Roseport, MN.

As the sun finds the perfect sucker hole in the clouds, INRD 9009 and 9010 bring their coke train into Galewood Yard to receive a fresh crew.

After several hours of delays between Barr Yard and Yard Center, CSX's handling of INRD's run-thru Coke train from Minnesota heads south down former C&EI rails at my namesake town.

On Sundays only PAUT-4 runs early enough that on summer evenings it can be caught running west into the sun on the short run from Palestine back to Robinson.

INRD 4003 leads a manifest southbound by the single semaphore at MP 269 on the CSX Hoosier Sub near Saltillo,IN 6/27/09. This would be one of the INRD's final runs between Hiawatha Yard in Jasonvi... (more)

INRD 4003 leads a manifest southbound through the classic Monon semphores at Hitchcock, IN 6/27/09. This would be one of the INRD's final runs between Hiawatha Yard in Jasonville,IN and Lousiville... (more)