A nice EMD powered consist heads coal empties out of Winona on a lovely June afternoon.
A CP 5942 is in charge of coke empties for Roseport on a sunny afternoon.
IC&E 6419 heads 271 past IC&E 6415 on the point of a crew-less 487.
DM&E 6094 glimmers in the last hour of sun as it heads a 171 up river.
6 SD40-2's head a rather short 487 for the DM&E connection at Tower CK. With CP units and leasers all over the DM&E lines, you can sure see some pretty colorful lash-ups.
Conductor Chris sticks his head out of the cab of CP 6038 heading a 581 through Winona.
Heading right towards the setting sun, a pair of nice matched candy apple Soo SD60's head a monster 281 "Ford Train" for St Paul. Sure was a nice break between studying for finals!
Soo 6034 and Soo 6044 find a patch of sun as they guide loaded tanker train 668 down river.
When I went out to catch Amtrak 7, I got word of 2 west bounds running ahead of it. First one sure was a nice surprise with a 5800 series SD40-2, and Soo SD60. Check out that number board on the 5... (more)
SOO 6060 leads train 499 towards the Twin Cities. With only five SOO SD60M, catching one in the lead is pretty lucky.
CSXT 8517 and HLCX 5989 hit a pocket of sunlight as the swing through the S-curve at Dakota. Timing sure was on my side today!
A pure CSXT SD50 is on the point of loaded coke train 800. sure was getting tricky to snatch nose-light at this time of day.
499 heads towards the Twin Cities and passes a nice river home along the way.
A nice change of pace. 99% of the time this train uses a pair or GE's, but today Soo 6037 has the honors of guiding the train up River.
Minutes before 7AM train 170 approaches CK with a classy blue and yellow trio, and 30 cars.
