After a short wait east of town, this priority intermodal heads across the river in the last light of the day.
Steam engine SP 4449 glides through on the west main, approaching Saint Croix tower. This train went 60mph virtually the entire way down the double-track BNSF mainline along the Mississippi River... (more)
Clouds broke just in time to spy CP's welded rail train crossing the Mississippi into Hastings.
To say it was foggy, might be an understatement. CP coke empties cross the Hastings lift bridge before the sun could burn off all the fog.
MILW 261 crosses the Mississippi River on their way back to Minneapolis after a week of excursions in Wisconsin.
A weed sprayer is tied up on the Vermillion Stub Track.
The MRL trio is back on a coke empty, only this time a CP AC4400 just had to tag along.
The Milwaukee Road Herald is still present on both sides of this lift bridge that crosses the Mississippi River. Since the Milwaukee Road owned it, the Soo Line and now Canadian Pacific owns it. D... (more)
Another one unit wonder crosses the old Milwaukee Road lift bridge at Hastings.
The 2007 Holliday Train arrives to huge crowds at the ex-Milwaukee Road depot at Hastings.
An empty CP coke train with Indiana Railroad power heads to the Flint Hills Refinery near Roseport.
Stacks cruise by the last remaining color of fall.
The Empire Builder flies east past an automated reader on CP's River Subdivision.
Passing ICE cooling its wheels.
The doubleheader of CP 2816 & MILW 261 making good time on their way East.
