Some older EMD locomotives rest on the servicing tracks in Willmar as they await their various local assignments that will fan out from this former Great Northern division point later in the day.
The Willmar east local backs into the spur track at Grove City to pick up a cut of cars at the grain elevator.
A little after sunrise, three four axle Geeps hustle across the frozen prairie landscape of southwestern Minnesota with the northbound Marshall local.
A local power set passes the power parked in the diesel service facility in Galesburg. Two former KCS switchers are among the power in the pit.
On a warm July evening, BNSF L-CHI105 heads west with a set of geeps.