P610 holds the main waiting for the light to proceed east after Q101 cleared.
CN 5648 heads west with M357 into the sweet light.
While SD9s are not that uncommon in Northern Minnesota, they are rarely sighted leading trains on the mainline. Here the 1728 leads a CWR train through the vast swamps near Meadowlands, Minnesota.
All three models remaining on the Missabe roster are represented by this consist approaching the small town of Kelsey.
A typical trio of SD70Ms handle this eastbound intermodal.
NS 3550 and an ex-CR GP40-2 are in charge of today's H76 as they rumble through the backyards of Slateford after interchanging with the D-L.
The crew of "Super and Duper", the names they gave on an RTC call in, take Train 834 out of the morning fog in the valley behind them and into the sun.
Unpatched BN unit leads an "earthworm" along the Columbia River.
N&W #475 4-8-0 launches forward during a switching move.
A set of CSX pusher units drift along on the bottom of a eastbound loaded coal train at Glenita as the late day shadows begin to overtake the scene.
Distributed power is leaning into this westbound coal empty at Pinecliffe, CO.
UP 5454 drops downgrade as he approaches Caliente while a few cows graze in a field.
Two kids take a short break from fishing to watch the DPU's on a northbound coal train rumble through Palmer Lake on an overcast afternoon.
An early morning westbound Norfolk Southern merchandise train crosses the Genesee River in Letchworth State Park. The park touts this area as being the "Grand Canyon of the East."