Now these are heritage units! From right to left: SOO 2066, SOO 4425, CP 3018, SOO 2026, SOO 2010, SOO 2016, SOO 4648. I've never seen a Bandit before let alone four of them!
A faded ILSX unit rests near the Thief River Falls yard, assigned to the town's grain elevator...
Assigned to the grain elevator in Oslo, NPR 2287, an ex-Kansas Southwestern unit, rests on a lazy Sunday...
BNSF 7827 leads M-MINSUP east at track speed over jointed rails on the Devil's Lake Sub just west of Larimore.
An odd leader for a mainline manifest, BNSF 3004 races north toward the yard. With the days getting shorter, this is probably my last shot of this train this year :(
White-face BNSF 2117 runs long hood forward onto the siding in Emerado as white-face BNSF 7827 on the front of M-MINSUP looks on...gotta love all that green power!
A trio of ex-BN vets brings the Minot, ND - Superior, WI manifest east into Emerado for a meet with light power. BNSF 7827 is sublettered 'Northtown.'
A nice-looking BNSFbonnet (1 of 26 SD75Is on the roster) leads empty Clay Boswell coal onto the wye to run south toward Fargo.
BNSF 4949 gets underway with the daily H-train after a section of broken rail is repaired on the Hillsboro Sub just south of town.
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.
Will the units in this shot someday be referred to as having 'pre-merger' paint? Hmmm. For now though, the daily H-train leaves for run south toward Fargo.
One of Grainbelt's newest Geeps rests in the yard late in the day near the grain facility in Snyder.
Westbound grain snakes its way through the Badlands and into Medora. The second unit is BNSF 9277, the only EMD widecab painted in Heritage I paint.
BNSF 7922 leads the M-DILLAU west out of town late in the day.
TOFC racing west across the huge expanse of the Red River Valley.
