SP power brings a BN manifest train from Superior WI on the Hinckley Subdivision to Northtown.
Soo Line's sole SD9, no. 2381, sits in the Shoreham round house for a major overhaul. Neighboring roads like GN, CB&Q, DM&IR, MILW & CNW all had moderate to large fleets of this EMD model. Soo Lin... (more)
After waiting on some westbound traffic to clear, a track geometry train hustles east out of Dilworth Yard, seen just west of Glyndon.
An eastbound BNSF intermodal train powers its way upgrade into Lake Park on a windy and chilly spring morning with snow still on the ground.
The Empire Builder heads west out of Hawley with Charger blue and red leading the way. A late season winter storm gave the landscape along the Buffalo River a perfect blanket of snow overnight.
I finally got out yesterday with the objective of photographing Canadian Pacific's Waseca Local that serves my town, Rochester, Minnesota. This local originates at the yard in Waseca, MN. When I m... (more)
GTW SD40 5910 mates up with two CN SD40s at the sanding tower in Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific's yard in West Duluth. Soon it will be on its way to Ft. Francis, ON with a freight.
CN 5209 is ready to depart the Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific yard in West Duluth and head to Ft. Francis, ON. The third unit is GTW SD40 no. 5910, which likely ended up as a DW&P unit.
An eclectic set of power splits the search lights at MP 41.2 on the BNSF Staples Subdivision. The codeline and searchlight signals have all fallen since the line was upgraded to CTC.
On the marijuana holiday, a quad set of dash 8s with 145 ore cars of Minorca made marbles in tow cut through the latest snow event as they head back for Two Harbors, MN.
Loaded ballast work rain slogs south towards Marquette, IA in the rain.
BN SD45 no. 6530 mates up with a U33C at Minneapolis Jct. The 6530 is about a month old when this photo was taken, having been constructed in July 1971.
Tattered BNSF B40-8Ws 542 and 558 shove a geometry train through Division Street, making for a pretty odd sight.
With the interchange work done at Florence, all 6K HP are put to use to get the train back up to track speed under the last sunlight of the day.
Viewed from a bluff in The Nature Conservatory's Hole in the Mountain Prairie, the Tracy turn makes its way back west.
