With fertilizer traffic on the rise, UP has been kept quite busy moving cars between their yard and industries on the other end of town. At 18:40 Job 01 trots back to the yard with a cut of hopper... (more)
Under sunny skies conductor Dan gives a friendly wave to the crew on train #499, passing his train (G69) at Tower CK. 15 minutes before this shot was taken an 80mph hail/rain storm had whipped pas... (more)
With a block on manifest on the head-end, empty tanker train #637 slows for Tower CK behind a 6-pack of dash-2's.
Somedays it's like the sale never even happened... On a beautiful March afternoon, a perfectly matched trio of Blue and Yellows take to the River Sub with 77 loaded cars.
IC&E 6413, NREX 7931, and IC&E 6420 get their 99-car train rolling, after a meet with westbound #283 at Tower CK.
A CSX Spartan Cab GE leads 6000+ ft of phosphate down the River Sub on a brisk March day.
Again?! Another nicely matched pair of SD45 bodied leasers, escort train #170 down the River Sub on a chilly (-11 degrees) February morning.
BNSF 9303 along with 2 70Mac's pull em' hard, trying to reach track speed again after clearing to 30MPH in Winona.
IC&E 6216, DM&E 6093, CITX 3121, and NREX 5542 split the four-way intersection at South Baker and 7th Street, as they motor westward on a monster #271.
Beer or candy? A truck arrives at the Brach Candy Factory, while Soo 2016 shoves a cut of hoppers down to the Malt Company for loading.
DM&E 6366 slides through its namesake city of Winona on the point of train #170 on a frigid February morning.
Dispatch promised this massive eastbound train a clear shot to River Junction, and that it received. Soo 6051, DM&E 6083, and NS 9267 make for quite a unique lash-up on this all-rack #282, rolling... (more)
A canadian SD40-2 slices through the fog as it approaches Tower CK on train #487.
My favorite IC&E motor heads train #170 down the River Sub, with 2 NREX (Rent-a-wrecks) trailing.