The highest numbered unit on the DM&E roster grinds upgrade on the head of 487 bound for Huron, SD.
A rainbow lash-up heads a 99 car train up to Stockton as it grinds out of the Mississippi Valley.
DM&E 6365 is surrounded by an ocean of green as it climbs up the 1.8% grade of Stockton Hill. It will be an easy climb today with 5 motors, and only 46 cars.
The daily Westbound out of Winona is doubling the hill out of the Mississippi River Valley. The train will drop its cars in the siding at Stockton and head back down the hill for the rest of the t... (more)
A Rio Grande veteran heads train 637 up Stockton Hill on a beautiful Saturday afternoon. Leasers like this are becoming more and more common by the day on the DM&E.
Originally beginning its life as DRG&W 5335, CITX 2794 is still making its keep, now working on the DM&E. With the sanders going, and the engine notched up to 5, train 637 grinds up the 1.8% grade... (more)
My first shots taken on CTC Boards "A Day in North America" were of 637 lead by quite a unique lash-up. CITX 2794 of DRGW heritage, leads DM&E 6362 ,an ex Milwaukee Road motor, and CITX 3098.
Empty Unit Ethanol Train heads uphill through the Stockton Valley.
Not quite DM&E, but close enough... two SD40's drag the daily freight from Minnesota City, MN to Huron, SD out of the Mississippi River Valley through the the bluffs at Stockton.
10 mph is all this train is doing on the trip through the Stockton Valley. Hopefully some day soon the CP will spend some money and upgrade this stretch of railroad to increase the speed.
Climbing the Stockton Hill on a beautiful spring evening.
After the DM&E received the train from the CP (train 487) in Goodview, MN, the crew heads southwest through the Stockton Valley.
DME train 487 (old MNHU) heads up the Stockton Valley at a steady 10 mph. Nice to see three different CP paint schemes!
Scenery like this is why I never want to leave the upper Midwest and the Mississippi River Valley. Truely God's country!
The knowledge that a crew would be on duty for this train around 1230 was all the incentive I needed to skip out of work for the afternoon. The CP crew parked the train earlier in the morning at ... (more)
