Almost missed the photo op for this since there was a empty gondola train that ran on the closest track just prior to this. But here's CP 7019 leading 147 off the NS onto the IHB connector at Arce... (more)
A trio of 2nd generation EMD's sits on the ore docks of Duluth, MN
A trio of SD40 variants leads a Southbound ore train towards Proctor and eventually the ore dock in Duluth.
A pair of CN SD60’s leading the MRF or the Proctor-International Falls manifest over the Cloquet River.
A pair of UP GP60's sit on the mainline as the sun sets. This is rather odd, considering the main line has been from what I assume is out of service for car storage for at least a year or two now.
A pair of leased SD90/43MAC's lead a set of empties back to Babbitt. I've heard their new power is with in days of arriving, so shoot these while you still can.
Pacing one of the many daily ore trains that run on the CN Missabe sub along Highway 7 in rural Minnesota
Digging in the archives and found this from earlier in the year. A CP rebuild sits in a snowstorm awaiting the next day's local job.
Went out to get a pic of the searchlights and got an added backdrop
The CP Holiday Train making its way through Watertown en route to Columbus. This train drew quite the crowd for a Friday evening!
Winter is definitely making its presence known as UP 1972 sits under the blanketing snow on this cold November night.
WSOR 4011 is in the lead of a Horicon-Janesville-BRC Clearing Yard train as it is seen here easing over the Rock River bridge at Janesville through the pouring rain.
CN 2841 & 2885 are seen cruising through Burlington with a Southbound manifest. I tried to do the framing a little different with the fall colors...
WSOR 4013 is trailing on a lite powered movement to the ethanol plant on a warm, wet summer night in Milton.
One of the last C&NW patch locomotives sits in the Janesville yard on a very eerie spring night.