BNSF 8846 leads 2 Oakway SD60's around a curve near Bluffton with grain hoppers
A short 188 axle merchandise train drifts into Staples yard behind what would normally be power for a much longer and heavier coal train.
A touch of fall color in this shot along the Staples Sub.
Shiny SD75M on a Superior-bound coal train passes through the Staples yard. I was lucky to catch this while there was a hole in the clouds.
Stack train splits the signals at Wadena early on July 5. He will clear his warrant from Richards Spur to Wadena in a few moments.
Two coal trains resting in Staples yard wait for crews to take them east
Matching GE's on a stack train west of Wadena
A pair of executive painted SD70MAC's lead an empty coal train west.
Evening light is reflected off this Union Pacific eastbound merchandise train as it prepares to depart Boone yard.
A pair of EMD's bring this empty coal train west on the Brainerd Sub in the early evening.
Two C44's march across the trestle just east of Frazee with a stack train in tow.
A pair of executive MAC's lead coal empties west hear Perham as a nearly full moon rises.
Matched set of clean GEVO's power a coal train east through Wadena in morning light. This train is just entering CTC territory.
Eastbounds wait for crews in Staples yard. SD40-2's have been getting more scarce in the area as newer power is delivered, but there were two leading trains on this day.
Three EMD's do their best Alco imitation accelerating coal empties east out of Wadena running wrong main
