The Hannah Local makes its way out of the yard as the West Lead takes a break from shuffling cars to let this train and the power for the H-GFDBRC get by.

Pigeons scatter around the cab as BNSF 2377 leads the once-a-week Hannah Local north under I-29 late in the day.

A good way to start the day with a large BN nose herald leading the way! The Mayville Local kicks up dust as it heads east for the yard and the #8 track.

Coal empties steam south past the ever-expanding silos at the Alton Grain Terminal. This facility has added the four left-most silos since this spring, significantly expanding the storage capabil... (more)

Clay Boswell empties behind a dirty SD75I in the BNSFbonnet scheme round the curve westbound about to cross the Red River into North Dakota.

A pair of Heritage I units ease across the old ATSF overpass over I-240 before stopping and reversing back into the yard on a typical hot and humid Oklahoma evening.

A northbound manifest undulates along the siding approaching GM Crossover. Quite the mix of pre-merger, post-merger, and future-pre-merger (?) paint run elephant-style approaching downtown Oklaho... (more)

Doing it the old fashioned way, the conductor uses hand signals to guide the engineer back onto the daily H-train. I'm starting to think NS is taking over based on all of their power we see up he... (more)

A Triclops leads the daily Dilworth - Grand Forks manifest north through the plains of eastern North Dakota under a brilliant blue and haze-free sky. I've wondered what a shot through this former... (more)

More NS power fronts the daily H-train as a railfan heads back to his ride after taking a shot. I thought the Santa Fe GP60M was going to be in the lead when I saw the power in the yard earlier, ... (more)

A nice change of pace away from H2 Dash 9 power for the H-train, an all EMD lashup powers over G.F. Switch on ABS Trackage leaving the yard. This power trio came in this morning on the M-NTWGFD w... (more)

Poor Conrail! For Conrail fans like myself, this is a pretty ironic lashup for Independence Day! NS 8310, an ex-Con C40-8, splices the recipients of Big Blue as the daily H-train departs the yar... (more)

A more typical-looking-for-the-area consist of SD60 power leads empty coal hoppers from Cohasset, MN south through Thompson on a hot and humid evening. BNSF 9275 is a one of the few SD60Ms to spo... (more)

The empty grain Milton Shuttle heads north through Manvel behind a Pumpkin II Dash 9, a whiteface NS SD70M, and a CSX ES44DC.

A westbound vehicle train cuts through the countryside just east of Hawley on a hot and humid afternoon that saw traffic traversing this section of the Staples Sub at slower than normal speeds.