An 'Extra Harvey Switch' departs Drake, ND for Harvey, ND with 23 loaded cars off the New Town Sub.
A pair of Northern Plains GPs sit quiet at the end of track at Kramer, ND. In short order, a crew will arrive and pick up the loaded hoppers in the background at the elevator to take west to the ... (more)
Snaking through green grass blanketing parts of the badlands during a late springtime morning in North Dakota is an eastbound BNSF coal train at Sully Springs on June 20, 2015.
Better known as the "Breck Local", the crew is waiting for a dinner delivery before proceeding north while a farmer plows his field.
A BNSF empty hopper train heads back to Spring Creek Mine on the old Great Northern while RRVW shuttle train CABR 06 waits it's turn into Breckinridge, MN.
Appearing not long for this world, Northern Plains Railroad 1400, a former BN GP10 that started life as a Great Northern GP7, sits at the line's shops at Lansford, ND.
After some brief work in Wyndmere, the Hankinson switch job returns to its home over the Wild Rice River east of Mantador.
After switching out Minn-Dak Farmers Coop just over the border, a perfect set of SW1200 switchers return to Breckenridge with 48 cars.
A quartet of GE products haul a consist of mixed freight eastbound through Menoken, paralleling an old side road.
DMVW's Max Turn heads south behind a former CN SD50F and a pair of SD40-3s, seen here at Garrison, not far from where the crew will law out on the day's journey.
Crete Grain's ex-MILW MP15AC awaits the call to duty at an elevator in Oakes, ND.
A RRVW GP15C and an ILSX GP39-2 lead a train of empties back toward Breckenridge, MN from Davenport, ND.
A pair of very proper 20-cylinder SD45s pull a 100+ car loaded grain train into the CP interchange at Hankinson, ND.
A sole CP GP20C-ECO leads an extra Harvey Switch eastbound from Drake where it picked up 23 loads off the New Town Sub.