A pair of cascade green geeps rolls back into Grand Forks as the sun already begins to sag in the sky on one of the shortest days of the year.

A nice set of cascade green GP39Vs leads a short, seven car Drayton Local into Grand Forks.

The Drayton Local staggers northward out of Grand Forks with the usual suspects leading the way.

The Drayton Local's pair of geeps crosses over a wooden bridge near the Minn-Dak Milling elevator north of Grand Forks.

As the engineer stares at the photographer, the Drayton Local passes under the University of North Dakota's "Hamster" tube and enters the curve back toward the yard.

In a scene typical to North Dakota, two old geeps haul a string of hoppers past a large grain facility, this one of which happens to play host to the largest buckwheat mill in North America!

A fairly new NRE rebuild leads a decent sized Drayton Local back to Grand Forks, about to bang across the diamond over the former Northern Pacific Manitoba main line.

A nice pair of cascade green geeps leads today's Drayton Local back to the Grand Forks yard.

One of the best locomotives to find on the point of a train today, BNSF 1497, an extremely rare GP15-1, leads the Drayton Local south toward Grand Forks in the last light of the day.

A pair of shiny GP38-2s eases through Grand Forks en route back to the yard.

The engineer of the Drayton Local puts his feet up as his train is forced to wait on the Glasston line for the interlocking to clear ahead on a bitterly cold Friday afternoon.

After a very rare meet at Manvel with the Langdon Turn, the Drayton Local approaches Calspur on its return trip to Grand Forks. The conductor gives me a friendly wave as the train heads straight i... (more)

In sweetlight, originally tiger-striped BNSF 3149, one of only 53 ex-BN GP50s left on BNSF's roster, trails another cascade green geep on the point of the Drayton Local as it returns to Grand Fork... (more)

Four GP38s, all in original Heritage I paint, lead a supersized Drayton Local consisting of mainly forwarded traffic from the Dakota Northern Railroad back into Grand Forks.

The Drayton Local passes through Calspur while a unit grain train sorts cars in the background.