The daily merchandise train for Laurel, MT heads westbound with a 5 pack of GEs past Lake Minnetonka on a bright afternoon in Wayzata.
BNSF 6261 (ES44AC) & 9218 (SD70ACe) approach West Elkhorn with a southbound coal. On the rear works BNSF 9769 (SD70MACe).
After four years of drought resulting in a dry Palmer Lake, a good year thus far of rain has replenished the lake as it reflects the passing DP units on a southbound BNSF coal train.
ES44ACs 6261, 5905, and 5733 lead a Roberts Bank export coal train into Colebrook.
An empty ore train for Keewatin Taconite rolls out of Superior for the mine on Minnesota's Mesabi Iron Range.
The DPU on the left belongs to a loaded Hibtac that has just arrived while an empty ore train for Keewatin Taconite rolls out on the right. Lake effect snow clouds are in the distance.
