An Alliance, TX, to Willow Spring, IL, Z-train (kind of) drops downgrade into Dahinda and over the Spoon River on the BNSF Chillicothe Sub. The train is roughly 165 miles from Chicago.
Bnsf 8381 Takes a Hot Z1 West down the Marceline Sub.
East bound manifest tackles the grades and curve on the Seligman subdivision west of Williams Jn.
A BNSF grain train crosses above the Sheyenne River Valley and the town of Valley City on the former Northern Pacific Hi-Line Bridge, completed in 1908.