Ballast train enters LaCrescent to drop cars off in the yard.

Loaded ballast train 3GPS waits its turn to depart St. Paul after changing crews at the RIPs. Meanwhile, a BNSF tie train sits tied down in the Bluff Yard, and a CP top end job with an SD40-3 is b... (more)

CP 6308 crawls its train over the Crawfish River in Hubbleton WI

A pair of SD60-3's approach Dickinson West with loaded ballast train 9WPA in tow.

A pair of former Soo Line SD60s pull a nearly 8,000 ton ballast train westward over the undulating Paynesville Sub.

Canadian Pacific train 250 heads east through Long Pond, Maine as it cruises past the bogs along the southern shore of Long Pond on former CMQ trackage. A trio of EMD's including the CMQ's Bangor ... (more)

A recently refurbished SD60 sits in the late afternoon sun just east of the diamonds in Savanna. Ex-SOO 6024 (b/d 3/89).

My final shot of this train was at the curve east of Sedan. The train was approaching the final few miles before tying down in Glenwood for the night.

The train heads throttles up into Belgrade, just passing through the Murray West siding switch.

The ballast train heads west into the namesake town of the subdivision, passing a soybean field. In the background, Rice Lake can be seen.

A trio of standard cab EMDs lead a ballast train west on the Paynesville Sub, seen here rolling past the pond near Buffalo.

The Canadian Pacific T27 transfer job between Windsor, Ontario and NS's Oakwood Yard in Detroit, Michigan makes its return run towards Canada, approaching the tunnel under the Detroit River behind... (more)

Canadian Pacific is catching the last rays as it crosses the Richelieu River/Chambly Canal

Canadian Pacific 250 cruises over the trestle that crosses the outflow at the south end of Moosehead Lake in Greenville, Maine on former CMQ trackage. An eclectic mix of EMD locomotives provide th... (more)

Canadian Pacific 250 is seen passing Greenville Junction and skirting along the edge of Moosehead Lake. The area is quite busy with snowmobilers and ice fishermen taking advantage of the perfect w... (more)