Remarks: The GE emits a huge cloud of smoke as an all-rail taconite train passes Oakland Tower in St. Paul, Minn. A leased B&O GP30 prepares to follow on a Milwaukee Road train after the BN train clears.
Remarks: CN's local from White Pine to North Bessemer, Mich., makes its way west crossing Presque Isle Creek. Only eight ex-Wisconsin Central GP40s survive at this writing on CN's roster, so getting two of them on this job is quite a catch.
Remarks: BN Train 157 gets orders at Central Avenue Tower, where the coal main and freight main come together in Superior, Wis., and where the NP line to Carlton once crossed.
Remarks: BN Train 125, with an A-B pair of F9s, heads north for Superior, Wis., leaving Northtown at Interstate. This was the only time I caught an A-B pair of Fs on a BN train.
Remarks: With SP 4449 coming back to the Midwest this summer for the first time since 1975, I thought folks would enjoy this shot of her. The locomotive is heading south from Oakland to LA at Sargent, California on May 3, 1989. It was heading to the 50th Anniversary Celebration of Los Angeles Union Station.
