From this vantage point the daily Grand Forks, ND - Northtown, MN high priority manifest looks like a ballast train, but there's planty more variety around the bend. Besides the Cascade SD40-2, w... (more)

MRL 390, an EMD F45, tags along fifth out on this southbound stack re-route headed for a meet with a northbound stack re-route in Hillsboro.

BNSF 8049 freshly cut from the tied down M-SUPMIN sits on the point of the daily H-train, while BNSF 7673 waits to manuever over to its grain train seen on the left on the Passenger Main.

Triclops accelerates empty Clay Boswell coal across the 32nd Ave grade crossing and past a really crooked signal that hasn't triggered quite yet...

Daily manifest Q681 steams south into Dothan, seen here just a few miles north of the yard.

BNSF 2369 steams out of Grand Forks and splits the signals at DL Switch. The tracks to the right are the wye to the Hillsboro Sub (running by the Amtrak station).

UP 7318 brings CSUX coal loads south through the Air Force Academy under the front range's two most recognizable features, one a national icon in the form of Pikes Peak and the other a regional ey... (more)

ARR 32 is about to enter Portage Tunnel with the Glacier Discovery as it works north toward Portage.

A neat twist on a neat engine: the Greenface SD60M leading coal empties out of the yard. Click for more Grand Forks Rai... (more)

BNSF 4882 leads a short Dilworth - Grand Forks manifest down Track 5 after waiting for the Mayville Local to clear. The heavy construction equipment behind the locomotives will depart in a couple... (more)

Sante Fe on the nose, BNSF on the side; 717 leads stacks west while a worker tries to fix the switch at the yard lead.

Coal empties snake north hugging the slim patch of land between the Seward Highway and the icy waters of the Turnagain Arm.

Coal loads creep their way south through Greenland. There's a defect detector just behind me that will usually say "train too slow" in it's Speak & Spell voice after these coal trains sloth by...... (more)

And here I thought my days in Colorado were done! Not quite. I'm in the Lower 48 on a business trip so when the opportunity presented itself, I figured I'd hit up my old stomping grounds to see ... (more)

Fighting Sioux! (<-I guess I'll have to remove that in 3 years when UND loses their mascot, but until then...). A southbound unit grain train rolls under the University of North Dakota's Hamster... (more)