Unfortunately, I saw and was given bad info yesterday, so I missed the 4100 leading L565. Today we made chase with it trailing the CN 2285. Still, a merger is consistent, and the 2285 won't be aro... (more)
An empty ethanol train from the NS at Chicago bound for Arthur, IA, rumbles west of the Dubuque Sub on a beautiful evening 5 miles west of Jesup. Getting trains on the west end of the Dubuque Sub ... (more)
Home to the Cedar River, Osage has been the starting and stopping point of crews working the Osage Sub for many years. This year that changed when District 2 CN crews got qualified to run to Charl... (more)
The 1st Cedar River job is on their way to Waterloo with cars mainly out of St. Ansgar. The job passes this 1941 Packard Clipper sitting on Main Street, Orchard. Side note: only 17,000 clippers we... (more)
Moving a cut of grain cars around Keenan yard. This power would be the outbound when the train leaves for Canada with 10k feet of matched CN hoppers for the fall grain rush.
After going to Hinsdale to retrieve a cut of stored grain cars, the dayshift T-Bird crew is in the process of shoving all 10k feet of them into and out the other end of Keenan yard. Once tied dow... (more)
Rolling through Fairlane with iron pellets in tow.
Iron ore from U.S. Steel Minntac rumbles across the steel DMIR era bridge at Kelsey, MN as they travel down the Missabe sub for Proctor, MN.
CN's Pointe-Saint-Charles switcher is busy pushing some covered gondolas out at the west end of the yard as VIA Rail's still fairly new Siemens Venture set with no. 2229 pushing heads west to Otta... (more)
An IC SD70 is on home rails of the former Illinois Central as it leads a northbound local at Money Mississippi.
Coming from the Alexandria sub., the last Ottawa regular freight train arrives at Coteau with a dirt GT unit trailing.
A trio of IC SD40-3s prepare to pull iron ore loads back to Proctor yard from United Taconite. While the mine is still making marbles to ship, the ICs are no longer in CN's ore power fleet having ... (more)
A pair of GTW locos make their way along to do some switching at a local blasting company's yard.
As the temperatures drops and fall is on the way into NE Minnesota, maybe this refurbished Jordan spreader will see action this winter as well.
