Quintuple-powered daily H-train departs a couple of hours late and takes in the last minutes of sunlight. Second unit is BNSF 338, a GP60B.
Crossing over from the Passenger Main to the Hillsboro Sub, a trio of Oakways running elephant-style lead empty coal hoppers out of the yard.
Who says full service is a thing of the past?!? With Stop signage in place, EMDX 9040 waits for a final fill up on the last unit before departing.
You won't find Station Sign WEST GRAND FORKS on any timetable, and you won't normally see a CSX unit leading a stack re-route in the area either.
Pre-merger paint leads the daily Dilworth, MN - Grand Forks, ND manifest onto the east leg of the wye at the Amtrak station.
A Warbonnet and two SD60Ms pull an empty Clay Boswell coal drag out of the yard during the only break in the clouds today. Info at Railroad: BNSF RailwayLocomotive: EMD SD75MLocation: Grand Forks, North Dakota, USALocomotive #: BNSF 8239Train ID: E-COBBSMPhoto Date: June 12, 2006
After Clay Boswell coal cleared its warrant off the Hillsboro Sub, H-GFDGAL departs the yard with two Pumpkins. Note the two pigeons at the bottom center of the frame; they'd fly up and ruin a wi... (more)
H-GFDGAL departs right on time for a run south on the Hillsboro Sub to meet M-DILGFD in Grandin.
Southern fans rejoice! Two Pumpkins run Southern-stlye up the Glasston Sub to drop a unit train of empty hoppers at the Peavy grain elevator.
A nice white-face SD40-2, CN/WC 6909, and ex-ATSF B40-8W lead the daily H-train out of the yard to meet the M-DILGFD somewhere south on the Hillsboro Sub.
Cascade Green leads the daily H-train out of the yard and onto the east leg of the Hillsboro Sub wye. More info at Gran... (more)
DPU of H-GFDGAL speeds south towards Fargo while the head end of the train knocks down the green signal in the distance.
H-GFDGAL leaves the yard late in the day. BNSF likes to run a Pumpkin II on either end of the daily H-train when they have them available.
Daily Dilworth, MN - Grand Forks, ND manifest charges north through the peaceful plains of the Red River Valley.
A fitting sight for Memorial Day as three Fallen Flag veterans continue to earn their keep in lease fleet service, seen here pulling the daily H-train out of the yard in The Forks.
