The second of two Dilworth manifests is creeping south into an area of extremely poor track on its way south.

A Dilworth bound manifest creeps southward toward Thompson. The train is down to 10 mph due to a stretch of extremely poor track coming up.

Right behind the coal empties is a short South Local on its way out to do some work.

Surprised they put the older Dash 9 ahead of the GEVO. A long manifest freight struggles to get up to track speed as it rumbles southward past the Merrifield elevator.

A late H-GFDNTW rumbles south through Merrifield behind a ubiquitous set of Heritage II Dash 9s.

A pair of GEs runs elephant style with high priority merchandise as the engineer gives a friendly wave.

For any fan of GE's C44-9W, here is a train for you. Seven Dash 9s lead train H-GFDNTW out of Grand Forks to meet the South Local at Thompson.

After setting out a bad order car in the yard, the daily H-GFDNTW trips an ABS signal as it rolls along near Merrifield with a duo of CSX GEs trailing a BNSF counterpart.

After getting the lead unit's horn repaired back at the Grand Forks yard, H-GFDNTW rumbles through Merrifield with an SD40-2 and a rare B40-8.

Grain empties behind a relatively clean Dash 9 roll south through Merrifield as I get a nice wave from Engineer Lunak. Looks like they fixed the broken Station Sign since the wind event the other... (more)

Coal empties fly south on the Hillsboro Sub after the M-DILGFD cleared its warrant. Won't be too much longer before corn is blocking this shot. On the upside though, perhaps that corn will be us... (more)

Today saw two M-DILGFD trains for some reason and here the first one works against a stiff 44 mph wind as it makes its way north toward Grand Forks. My guess is the Merrifield Station Sign was a ... (more)

A high priority Pasco, WA - Dilworth, MN re-route heads south late in the day with a CN-SOO-BNSF trio providing the power. In the first three years of railfanning the northern plains, I've only c... (more)

BNSF 8104 blasts south through Merrifield. With the increase in HPT ratio required on this new H-train, the SD60 series may have been given a second lease on life in the northern plains region as... (more)

Loaded grain rolls south through Merrifield destined for St. Louis as I get a friendly wave from the engineer. Not to worry though, his hand suffered no frost bite as temperatures climbed as high... (more)