A pair of big macs head west with traffic for Winnipeg.
CEFX 105 (SD9043MAC), CEFX 125 (SD9043MAC), GMTX 2189 (GP38-2), VTR 301 (GP40), GMTX 2663 (GP38-2) with 51 cars on the move approaching Vermont Route 11 crossing. . . ... (more)
The INRD Big MACs make the turn at the Wheelhouse Curve out of the Menomonee River Valley as they head west with the day's 281 manifest
A trio of SD9043MACs arrive into Council Bluffs after a long trip across Illinois and Iowa with MPRCB.
UP SD9043MAC 8149 trails as the DPU of a eastbound manifest coming into the town of Gothenburg.
An Indiana Railroad SD9043MAC leads a southbound CP freight out of St. Paul. This was my first encounter with an INRD unit, both of us far from our normal operating territories.
An Indy MAC and CP GEVo make easy time westward after checking fuel reading at Nashotah.
While the city sleeps, recently acquired and repainted CEFX (CIT) SD9043MAC 105 makes a dramatic appearance rumbling through Rutland leading an ethanol train past the Howe Center at 03:59.
Another strange appearance of a lone Indy MAC leading a CP manifest! CP 3-298 drifts downhill on the Brookfield hill with a short train.
A trio of UP SD9043MACs round the curve and split downtown Glen Ellyn in half with MPRBO. UP has placed many of these into storage with cracked frames, so I did not mind seeing this!
UP 3630 pushes on an eastbound stack train.
A lone Indy MAC is large and in charge of 288 as it approaches Cooney Siding, just east of the rural community of Ixonia.
A westbound Canadian Pacific freight curves through Elko, British Columbia. Union Pacific locomotives are common on the Crowsnest Pass route main line, and here UP EMD SD9043MAC No. 8307 teams up ... (more)
UP 8276, 8307, 7065, and 5521 lead an empty potash train over the east siding switch at Caithness.
UP 8276, 8307, 7065, and 5521 lead an empty potash train eastbound on the Cranbrook Sub.