Light engine movement north (RR West) toward the yard with a Pumpkin I in the lead...
With eastbounds streaming in off the Devil's Lake Sub, this engineer was anxious to get moving out of the yard and south (RR East) down the Hillsboro Sub...
NPR 3502 and three other GP35s lurch a long grain train at max track speed on this ex-SOO line at 25 MPH. The conductor has checked off and is back in unit two or three doing some duties.
Heavy grain leaves Fordville and makes its turn toward the east on this crisp, clear morning. Track speed is 10 MPH on this section.
Typical of the lazy Sundays in Grand Forks, this high priority train leaves with just 9 cars lead by BNSF 4490 sporting a bad coat of faded paint...
Good thing for this Ford Hi-rail that the loaded coal in front of it is headed south and away from it!
No mountains, no pines, no thin air...but at least in North Dakota you can get the whole dang train in the shot! The Devil's Lake Local about to switch some rock cars in Emerado.
How much longer can you get shots like this: unpatched Denver & Rio Grande Western paint in front of the Rocky Mountains? The days are numbered...
Favorite shot of the trip: Executive MAC and coal as seen from a cliff just south of the Academy siding!
Empty coal DPU gets ready to take the siding at Academy for a meet with southbound coal.
Now this is Heritage paint! Untouched Rio Grande Geep in the yard in front of the Front Range!! Catch of the trip (for me)...
With mis-matched number boards, heavy horsepower UP 7547 leads a short manifest south on a pleasant morning.
More Powder River coal heads south along the Front Range and toward Colorado Springs.
BNSF 8836 rolls south with coal, almost at the beginning of the single track which proceeds through Colorado Springs.
Coming downhill from Monument through USAFA, BNSF 8836 leads this southbound coal drag. Taken from the North Gate Dr. bridge (this was closed to pedestrians last year!). C-CAMSLP1-02A.
