Ah, yes, North Dakota in December...snowy white, bitter cold, and when the sun does come out, crystal blue skies. You could also say barren, featureless, and boring, but that's why it's nice to h... (more)

Clay Boswell coal empties head south on the Hillsboro Subdivision.

A horrible looking (and sounding!) former BN SD40-2, a yard switcher, and a former Conrail SD50 lead the M-GFDNTW past the elevator at Merrifield. The train was having a very hard time trying to g... (more)

An odd move this evening in the Red River Valley: this manifest came east off the Devil's Lake Sub and is seen here running south on the Hillsboro Sub. Most of the re-routes we see here are of th... (more)

Two blue beasts and a single warbonnet SD75M approach Merrifield in the lead of Clay Boswell coal empties on a pleasant, cool sunny day in eastern North Dakota.

A Noyes Grain train rushes south through Merrifield on a busy day in eastern North Dakota.

The stack re-routes are back! MoW work is in progress along the KO Sub between Minot and Fargo causing stacks/autoracks to detour over the Great Northern's former Hi-Line across northern ND. BNS... (more)

A nice mix of power leads the M-DILGFD through Merrifield nearing the final destination of Grand Forks. As usual, some low priority coal loads have found their way into the mix of commodities haul... (more)

BNSF 9257 leads Clay Boswell coal north in the last rays of direct sunlight. Looks like BNSF was able to fix the station sign here at Merrifield after it took a whack sometime last week.

EMDX 9008 leads Ardoch coal empties south on the Hillsboro Sub. The Merrifield station sign serves as a tangible warning about the hazards of being too close to the tracks...it was recently clobb... (more)

One of two visitor from the East Coast I saw this evening, the other was a NS Dash 9-40CW.

Two cascade green SD40-2s lead a long stack train east off of the Devils Lake Subdivision and onto the Hillsboro Subdivision.

A fresh crew leads a long grain train south on the Hillsboro Subdivision after coming in from Devils Lake.

How awesome is this? Two unique paint schemes in the same lashup: BNSF 9277, the only EMD widecab in Heritage I paint and BNSF 9297, the famous dual-scheme unit. So, why the heck is BNSF 8215 le... (more)