A trio of SD70s leads an Ardoch, ND, coal empty down the Hillsboro line after running around the train through the yard.

The engineer gives a wave as the Mayville Local cruises over the bridge at MP 1.

High priority merchandise for Northtown Yard is slowly dragged out of town by a pre-swoosh ES44DC and three EMDs.

After the sky clears up, an empty Clay Boswell coal train rolls out of Grand Forks behind a pair of SD70MACs.

A pair of cascade green geeps rolls back into Grand Forks as the sun already begins to sag in the sky on one of the shortest days of the year.

In the last light of the day, a miserably late H-GFDNTW departs town with the two SD60M varients sandwiching a competitor GE.

Two Dash 9s lead a manifest heading from Grand Forks, ND, to Superior, WI, on a cold December day.

A quartet of EMDs is in the lead of this H-GFDNTW slowly departing Grand Forks.

With two SD70MACs pulling and a GEVO pushing, coal loads accelerate eastward out of East Grand Forks with the Cass Lake Local not far ahead.

With nothing more than a lousy eight-car local today, I decided I had to try something different.

The Mayville Local cruises westward out of Grand Forks behind another solid ex-BN duo.

Despite the rather cold conditions on this frosty Veterans' Day morning, it apparently was still quite warm in the cab of the BNSF 8901 as it lead coal empties out of town.

A bluebird leads the Mayville Local westward at MP 1 on a cold, frosty Veterans' Day morning.

A huge consist leads the Northtown Yard priority manifest out of Grand Forks. Seven locomotives, including three GEs, two SD60s, and two geeps, are present.

The pair of GP39Vs that has recently found work out of the Grand Forks terminal continues its operations as it leads the South Local back into town.