Job 82 returns to Altoona with frost providing a nice backdrop.

LTS82 heads west with a single SD40N for power.

UP 1739 and 2198 lead LTS82B west towards Sono Jct following the first big snowfall of the season.

UP 958500, a heavily modified former SD40-2, pushes one of UP's RELCO built tie pick up trains into Roberts.

LTS82B passes some nice looking birch trees on their way to Bayport. UP 1990 was built as the CNW 6857, and is no stranger to this trackage.

A very clean SD70M leads an OCS train out of Roberts. An SD70M is kind of an odd choice for business train power in 2020, not that I'm complaining.

UP 1878 and 1766 sandwich a single sand load for Cardinal Glass as they return east from Hudson.

CSXT 8350 leads ORPTS west of Roberts.

MNPAL clears out the Altoona Sub after a nice snowfall. The valiant engineer waved the whole time.

UP 8904 leads an Altoona to St. Paul freight west near Roberts, WI on the former C&NW (Omaha Rd.) mainline a day before UP 4014 rolled east on this line.

It's hard to do much better than this on the UP these days. Roseport coke loads roll east through Roberts behind a clean Tier IV EMD and a crusty wide cab GE.

Four former CSX SD70Ms lead MALSS west across the UP Altoona Sub. UP has recently started leasing former CSX AC6000CWs and SD70Ms from Progress Rail Leasing in order to help alleviate their power ... (more)

Return of the 400
On August 10, 1985, Streamline Excursions, Inc. sponsored the “Return of the 400,” a round-trip excursion between Amtrak's St. Paul-Minneapolis Midway Station to Eau Cl... (more)

A quiet summer evening is temporarily interrupted by the scream of AC traction motors as loaded sand train MALEAX treks westward across the Altoona Sub. The train had a 2x0x2 power formation which... (more)

Two NS motors and a pair of UP SD70Ms lead a heavy phosphate train westbound through Roberts. These trains run every so often during the winter, when barges are unable to navigate the frozen Missi... (more)