The Drayton Local comes up to the Gateway Drive crossing as it proceeds northward out of Grand Forks on a humid summer morning.
After numerous back and forth trips to inspect all of the interlocking track in Grand Forks, a ratty warbonnet leads a track geometry train southward toward Fargo.
It's nice to see a bluebonnet back on the point as the South Local heads for Hillsboro with the Grand Forks to Northtown train right behind it.
A coal empty races westward out of Fargo on a hot, muggy evening. Traffic was very sparse and stack trains were being detoured via Willmar due to a grain train derailment in Fridley, MN, earlier i... (more)
The Mayville Local rolls into Grand Forks off of the currently almost dormant Devils Lake Subdivision.
Two GEs and a single SD70MAC take the passenger main alongside the Grand Forks yard with a loaded coal train for Cohasset, MN.
It's not a magnificent steam locomotive, nor is it in the impressive daylight scheme, but this 4449 will have to do today. This manifest from Grand Forks to Northtown Yard has the two rear units d... (more)
After some quick work on the Thompson siding, the South Local scoots southward out of town.
Grain empties heading from Tacoma, WA, to Drayton, ND, roll across the MP 97 bridge. They will pull out onto the Devils Lake line and back into the yard, but cannot go up to Drayton yet due to the... (more)
Grain empties heading from Tacoma, WA, to Drayton, ND, hold the main track south of the crossings in Buxton as the South Local enters the siding at the north end.
It's a muggy, unpleasant morning in the Red River Valley. At least a pair of BN geeps is out to brighten the mood.
The Mayville Local hustles eastward past the ABS signal just west of the abandoned town of Ojata. This point was once the western terminus of what was then Great Northern's mainline.
The region's recent rainfall has both the Red River and the drainage ditches high as the Drayton Local rolls northward out of Grand Forks.
Viewed from the northeast side of the bridge, a shiny pair of GEVOs rolls northward across the Red Lake River and into the "TR Falls" yard.
A lone AC44 leaser fronts a southbound freight across the Red Lake River as it heads out of the yard.
