Four standard-cab EMDs command the second section of the Grand Forks, ND to Northtown Yard manifest around the elevated curve in Clear Lake, kicking up snow along the way. In the age of PTC, se... (more)
Coal trains for the Jeffrey, KS power plant, accessed off UP's Marysville Sub at Aikins, ran with pooled UP and BN power, as they were interchanged to/from BN at Northport, NE. Here westbound &quo... (more)
CP 3GPS pulls back down from Dresser Trap Rock after losing CP 5922 to a mechanical failure. Unable to make it back to St. Paul with only two operable SD40-2s, the crew will tie down the train on ... (more)
Northbound ballast train storms into Green Island on it's way back to Wisconsin.
Ballast train tied down on the siding at LeClaire with a trio of SD40s.
CP 3GPS-04 pulls down past the east leg of the wye in Dresser, in order to shove up to the quarry. Three venerable GMD built SD40-2s provide power. Unfortunately the 5922 ended up failing, and the... (more)
CP D13 heads south through Comstock with a pair of GP20C-ECO's
A northbound CP Rail rock train rolls through LeClaire, IA. Hard to believe something like this happened in 2019!
Union Pacific SD40-2 3725 plus three more and two GE C30-7's at City of Commerce, California.
In 1990-1992, Union Pacific traffic to and from Burlington Northern at Bieber was detoured on Southern Pacific between Marysville, California and Klamath Falls, Oregon. One of the northbound detou... (more)
