Kicking up some fresh snow, fairly clean CP 8025 along with KCS 4064 lead a unit train of empty crude oil cans north on the CN Rainy sub passing through the former DWP yard at Virginia, MN on a co... (more)
Fresh. Rumor has it these factory fresh rebuilds will be the power on ore trains across NE Minnesota replacing the Dash 8's and the older EMD products that are plying the rails today.
Rolling south along the CN Missabe sub as the sun sets. That plume on the horizon is the U.S. Steel Minntac plant where this train originated about an hour or so previous.