FURX 7291 heads south on the Hillsboro Sub. It is painted in BNSF colors but you can still see the FURX identifier painted on the side.

A repainted SD75M rounds the east leg of the wye toward F.O. Switch in nice evening light.

Clay Boswell coal empties swing onto the east leg of the wye for the run to Hillsboro, where they will meet the M-DILGFD.

A couple of cascade green geeps have a long day ahead of them as they accelerate out of Grand Forks to collect a siding-length cut of cars at Thompson and continue with work at Redco and points so... (more)

Rarer breeds of GE and EMD power as well as a large flatcar shipment are present at the head end of today's Grand Forks - Northtown manifest heading out of town right behind the South Local.

EMD's first non-demo SD60 is in the lead of Clay Boswell coal loads passing under the Interstate 29 overpass.

My dad, RP contributor Louis Becker, has just finished taking a shot on the right as BNSF 1029 and large font EMD 9066 accelerate past us in control of the M-GFDNTW.

A nice mix of EMD power rolls westward past the Cottonwood Switch with Clay Boswell coal empties.

Northtown to Grand Forks merchandise rolls into its final destination under the control of ex-BN, Conrail, and ATSF paint.

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.

What appears at first glance to be a unit grain train is actually a manifest fresh off of the Devils Lake Subdivision on the 6th aniversary of 9/11.

A spanking new CSX GEVO and an NS counterpart glint nicely in the setting sun with their unit grain train.

Coming off of the Devils Lake Subdivision and onto the Grand Forks Subdivision, a Heritage II Dash 9 and a Heritage I counterpart haul a unit grain train eastward.

In a very rare scene, not one, not two, but three cascade green ex-BN geeps march eastward over G.F. Switch in control of the South Local. Usually this local is powered by one or two geeps of vari... (more)

The first W2 painted switcher seen in Grand Forks has returned and is seen here shoving the mill job westward under the Demers Avenue overpass. Thanks to whoever cut a hole in the fence at this sp... (more)