BNSF 8039 leads the daily Dilworth, MN - Grand Forks, ND manifest north toward F.O. Switch with a couple of big CATs in tow. It's always a good day when you see an ex-BN Cascade Green SD40-2 lead... (more)

BNSF 8264 laps across the southern part of the balloon track to clear its train off of the Glasston Sub. Note the difference in color and font between the two units in the Heritage II scheme.

BNSF 9257 leads Clay Boswell coal north in the last rays of direct sunlight. Looks like BNSF was able to fix the station sign here at Merrifield after it took a whack sometime last week.

EMDX 9008 leads Ardoch coal empties south on the Hillsboro Sub. The Merrifield station sign serves as a tangible warning about the hazards of being too close to the tracks...it was recently clobb... (more)

Eastbound intermodal blasts out of Dilworth on Main 2 after receiving a fresh crew at 'The Hotel' back in the yard.

An Oakway leaser and BNSF 9277 (the unique H1 EMD widecab) rest on Main 2 near the 25th St. overpass after picking up SCKX empties left there from the Otter Tail Valley Railroad. This interchange... (more)

More stacks leave the yard eastbound behind a Pre-Swoosh GEVO. This was the second of a flood of five eastbounds to depart in relatively quick succession.

Destroying the earth and the environment (yeah right!), this Oakway smokes it up as it departs Dilworth eastbound with a high priority Pasco, WA - Northtown, MN manifest.

The Greenface leads loaded coal up the grade leaving the trench and the wooden bridges east of Hawley behind. No hitch hikers in today's coal train!

The Greenface and the SD60M class unit have loaded coal headed eastbound on top of the Stockwood Fill. You'll notice this train's running near tree-top level, some 20 to 30 feet above the surroun... (more)

Horizon to horizon, it's all M-GFDNTW with a duo of SD40-2s pulling south after meeting its counterpart, M-NTWGFD, in Harwood.

The daily Grand Forks - Northtown manifest is rolling south again behind nice Cascade Green power after running up on the South Local who had the Hillsboro Sub clogged for a few minutes before cle... (more)

The South Local with a pair of EMDX leasers creeps south through Hillsboro with a long train to take the siding and clear the main for M-GFDNTW.

The daily Grand Forks, ND - Galesburg, IL high priority manifest makes the turn on the wye for the Hillsboro Sub and then south towards Fargo. The red marker lights on the second unit peg it as a... (more)

A two-for-one as my first H-train catch of the year departs from the Passenger Main, which is odd, while the West Lead shoves a cut of cars back into the yard.